so when my friend arrissia invited me to a poetry reading in lake forest i had no idea what i was in for…
a night of the raddest poetry ever! a tribute/fundraiser for derrick brown - the most incredible poet i've met or heard… the night ended up being long and weird and surprising and reminiscent of being 22…
you must check out derrick's words- they made me laugh so hard i nearly fell off my barstool and wipe a few tears away with a cocktail napkin...
the night was filled with …
fresh clean boys from the midwest scrawling poetry on bathroom walls and my forearm, costumes consisting of white pieces of paper taped to the chest proclaiming…'nun', 'bunny', 'old yeller', late night lottery tickets, english men in town on business, a woman who said she was from everywhere and nowhere accosting me on the patio with her poetry written for timothy leary, breaking into my own house, cooking scrambled eggs with no toast, stories of driving across county picking up hitchhikers named everett…
who'da thought lake forest could look like san francisco on a monday night…
-amber tamblyn - one of the poets from the evening sporting a cool save derrick t-shirt
-some bathroom wall graffiti
-derrick poetry written on my arm with a sharpie
