Gets first ride. I published a few poems over the years in various mimeo mags and gave my one public reading at the Detroit Artist's Workshop around 1964. Basically, I just moved downtown. Music's my main passion, mostly jazz, and for a while in the seventies I ran a club in Vancouver that presented geniuses like Lee Konitz, Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Mary Lou Williams, Betty Carter, Abdullah Ibrahim, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, etc. I'd love to do it again but the world's gotten just too damn goofy.
Capitalism hates art more than ever.
The writings here are all, like my life, works in progress.