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AK has now a new subscriber who joined just to read my poetry, and I'm thinking he is almost assuredly the first and only (probably the last also), and the excitement of it is even now spreading through the Norman community. People are dancing in the streets! Well, not quite yet, but it's apt to begin any moment.
He is in Kansas, somewhere between the corn and the wheat, a border I'm pretty sure can be seen from the International Space Station. At any rate, Stephen is a friend (don't know his screen name; he probably won't even look around the site, but if he does... Hi, Stephen, and welcome aboard). He always has multiple irons in the fire, and called on me a couple weeks back, or so, asking about my poetry.
He's involved with some art benefit thing, along with other interests. We've known one another for a couple years, and when he stopped by I recited one of my poems to him when he began talking about the art thing. I showed him my poem entitled "Pyramid Scheme" and he really liked the poem and the artsy sun image which heads it. He's having some visual art embedded in fabric by a process similar to silk-screening, but I've forgotten the process. Anyway, I notice in casual conversation he refers to it as silk-screening, after explaining that it is different, so I do, too.
The plan is to make various images, then mount the art in a frame. There is a minimum order he has to place, but they don't have to be all the same image. He called me a week after we discussed it during his brief visit, to ask permission to use the poem, and I quickly agreed. I want one to hang on my wall. If he manages to sell them, I'll even get a little money. He takes all the risk. Hey, go for it, why not? Right?
Additionally, he has a retired gentleman with a radio broadcaster voice - well, maybe not so much as many voices on the air today - old-style, good speaking voice. He's already produced a CD with Tom reading poetry, and he wanted to read through mine. I tried to email them, but he couldn't open the attachments. we finally gave up trying, and I told him if he simply subscribed here, he and Tom could view them all to find whether they want to include some of my poetry in the next CD.
Having heard the first one, I think rain would be a good choice. Whether this comes to fruition or not, at least I can now truthfully say my poetry led to subscription here. It's not really that I lied about that in the past, I simply borrowed it from the future until it became truth.