one more time here there we go all right well thank you so much all right we're ready for tyler russo mr russo is a tech librarian in monroe township public library he plays there in that area open mikes his musical skills were developed beside y m c a campfires and he's become a regular whiz on guitar so he's a whiz on guitar ukulele mandolin banjo and other instruments and over twenty years he's written more than write one over lunch and people like yeah i wrote this one over a cup of coffee it's called whatever that's not up at the that is the name of the song  whatever is on your m for my best friend i kind of wrote the tease a little bit because he hates country music but there's kind of this funny story that goes on behind that my best friend brian he used to really like this girl named kareena and he just never really said anything about a two h and he would but he would like everyone gifts and stuff like that and then finally one day he calls me he said i did it man i did and i said what you do he said i drove all the way out to kareen as work and she works like an hour and a half away he's like i wrote her a song and i left her a letter and i gave her roses and i said hey man that's great did you take that the one off the roses and likes music what are you talking about and i said well if you run your fingers down with them the stem of the rose if you prick your hand it's not supposed to be but if they were on their finger down the stem and you removed all the thorns you're supposed to stay with that guy because that's the guy that will pay attention to every little detail for you and it sounds good right it's bullshit i made it up on the spot like it's not but it sounds good like i totally want to keep going with this i'm kind of pushing this idea with it but so i tell him this then also and he's like oh man i didn't know that he said listen i'll call you back later and then i get a call about two hours later and like you and because he drove all the way out there again and she was at the car when he was there and he's trying to explain the rose thing and fortunately she knew me and she's like you actually bought that from tyler the sad news is it didn't work out  so i'm going to take it down a notch it's that point in the songs and this song i wrote for a friend of mine who he and his wife have a lot of trouble at trying to keep things together and then finally one night around three am he gets up and he kissed his kid and he left the house and it's always this terrible think is when you see he and his ex wife together they still truly love each other very much but when they're together it's not a good thing so  i wrote this song for him it's called i have no introduction to this song incidentally that joke about the thorns is going to pop back up in this one but yeah i'm a bad friend actually my both my my wife and my best friend how this like terrible habit of just believing me for things so i bet i guess the only really good story i can segue into that is like my wife is trying to find a thermos and stuff our little nephew for his alright it's the time and i wear after that someone else on after this song so this is a this is a song i've always wanted to do this introduction for that never takes off and we're always going to be like ladies and gentlemen the drinks will be on me and everybody  like well you're already taken the joke dude so it's not going to work out here but yeah so this is a song called the drinks will be on me and you said you would go when you're leav can find them at local farmers markets churches and parties they evoke old crowed medicine show or the still drivers playing traditional blue grass folk country airs of such artists as  the day yes whatever that is he plays a very well mr cohen host poetry aloud and a live at philadelphia's big blue marble bookstore his articles on sculpture appear in the skookum valley journal to which he is a contributing editor mr cohen's ride writing has appeared in the nad poets review as well review and other journals his poetic present nations feature humor and drama a philosophical backdrop mr cohen's poetry can be found at my cohen says dot com and his book is between the eyes so welcome come on down m why what an exciting evening we had and here i am  my apologies i beg your pardon but i hope you'll excuse me for having excused myself from doing anything more helpful for you than to provide a bit of fin knock you with center taint i could gone into research or medicine or medical research and maybe just maybe come up with a remedy for whatever malady you happen to be dying of right now whether you realize it or not it might simply have been a matter of applying myself who knows god knows we never will but you could have had a longer healthier happier life and i beg your pardon but all i can offer you now are my profoundest apologies on the other hand you could have done the same for me and if you did actually happen to go into research or medicine or medical research i beg your pardon but why didn't your comrade it maybe just maybe you could have come up with a remedy for whatever malady i happen to be dying of right now whether i realize it or not it might simply have been a matter of applying yourself who knows god knows we never will but i could have found a longer healthier happier life and i beg your pardon but i think maybe just maybe you all me an apology thank you very much that's ok the thing is we probably couldn't help each other very much anyway after all we're all just little chips in the great eternal poker game this is the eternal poker game is one famous game of five card draw that everyone witness but nobody saw  round the table five players sat hauntingly still fate chance and justice and chaos and will chance was the dealer justice won first they played their hands almost as if they had rehearsed justice took two cards that will took two more chance shrugged and took three chaos took four and when his turn came fa meant hope for victory was gone and so the three sat with their game faces on until the time came as the second hand swept to reveal the five cards those three players  chants had three sevens justice a straight all of the focus now fell upon the fate over the game room there such a law hush and fate flashed a smile and his hand flush they said every day and they play their old game each time the contest results are the same chance always steals justice always begins will always fold the game is going on chances are always doing that eally how many came here by bus too bad because you know on a bus you learn a lot about pass you learn about chance about when to take a chance and when not when a bus you learn not to take a chance unless you've got a good reason any time you change seats on a bus you take a chance on a bus you learn not to change see unless you've got a good reason a quick reason would be if you're five and you happen to have sat down next to a madman or in part all of someone else's piss or both if you just go about changing seats for no good reason eventually you'll find you happen to have sat down next to a madman or in the puddle of someone else's  or both that's the kind of thing that happens on a bus where you learn about chad's that's why we don't like to leave things to chance it's maybe the cafe improv but there's really very little improvisation going on here all this was planned out and practiced and rehearsed and figured out in refigured over and over again because we didn't want to leave things to chance and we know that it wouldn't come out nearly as smoothly if we didn't do all that preparation and yet when we come up here we want to present it as if we're being nonchalant about it as if we just do it very easily and because that seems to cool way to do it so that's what we have we try to present it as if it's easy he cites his poem as if he wrote it in one first is if he had not stopped for a snack and returned to replace wrong words by the wrong word by near right were my right word by just right here he cites his poem as if he had not put it aside have finished to make love to you and forgotten about it and all the rest while he tried on your fingers and slipped into your skin as if that hadn't changed him forever once more as if nothing ever changed as if nothing that is might not be he recites his poem as if wisdom and love were effortless and endless as if all his words were just right words as if he had not  so he tried to be nonchalant about just about everything i was love our life our poetry our marriage when we get married we say till death do us part so easily without even thinking about it but think about it what does that mean means that at least one of you is not going to survive the relationship best you can do is to end up in  time i like doris and doris till death do they part as it goes with many couples it was not clear whether doris and doris were killing themselves or each other but as they la together dying it struck them the tragedy the irony of the absurdity of their lives and deaths simultaneously they awaken to broader perspectives as they felt themselves passing the way of  miss mr ross jenkinson and corey corey r j has been writing and performing his own songs around the country on this early fall saturday he'll be accompanied by band made kara leah on  this rhode island native recently moved to central new jersey he knew where to come and he's working on several recording projects from a base in lawrenceville and i think i hear a little feedback here will take care of that a few minutes in two thousand and thirteen he released his  set up here for mr and mr smith we are absolutely thrilled that they are here and they have been gone so long so long that no one remembers that they were even here but once they were the most exciting most promising most deeply original cabaret act that ever opened up whole new vistas of entertainment to an amazed public that was roughly april of one thousand nine hundred eighty three to february nineteen eighty four and then they passed into the edge and and the legend was forgotten and the people who forgot it but meanwhile in africa mr and mr smith became the center of a powerful cult ethno musicologists tract bench and jim beckerman to their remote village homes where they agreed to make a rare appearance here in these united states they will play piano and sing songs written by themselves they may be assisted by the famous mr third smith and the seller but mr and mr smith are happy to be performing for you this early fall evening they just don't really we lost your luggage we lost your luggage we call miami the table and on the runway we couldn't oh you first of all we would like to thank the arts council for having us back we don't usually get invited back usually we get and here's another animal so a little fish and then the biggest fish eats the big fish and then the great big fish eats the bigger fish and then the tiny little fish sheets the great big fish yeah i and again that is from their upcoming p b s documentary series for children