Alan Harris featured Poet

Always open mic before and after feature.  Free.

Alan Harris has been an actor and a stand-up comedian, which might explain why his "poetry" sounds like it does. He has lived in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and would someday like to live in Cranky Corner, Louisiana.

COSMIC ORPHAN

I dreamed that I stood naked before Fred and Ethel Mertz
Who told me to stop watching so much TV
And listen more to the noise of the holiday methadone-addled poor
And see if I can catch a glimpse of a glimmer of a glint of a shard of a fragment of a sliver of
hope
Amidst the jostling for position of Jesus wannabes dipping their fingers in bowls of digital holy
water
While their collective flickering morality intermittently illuminates the compulsive saluting of
Napoleonic beat cops who are just doing the job they were hired to do
Which apparently includes hassling the ever-multiplying numbers of cosmic orphans
Who can only stare blankly at the overrated reality of mega-mall fascism and masturbatory
politeness
Their ears ringing with the hipster lingo of the day-glo soccer mom
And the demands of infants to be taken off speakerphone
Their to-do lists awash in reminders to update their self-destruction
Before returning to their refrigerated apartments
Where Fred and Ethel Mertz await
Somewhere in the world

Every second of the day