On the 4th day, she rested

talk about rockstar!...jetted (by bus) from boston early friday morning (simone drove me back from rhode island feature the night before) to central jersey feature...ended up getting there hella early but grouchy ass flowmentalz of the port africa slam, held me down...before i forget, big mic! you're my favorite white poet in new jersey boo...no one even comes close!!!!...the feature was solid...included, for bashir, the coochie magic interlude, a poem for wangari mathai and word medicine cuz i wanted to test those out on an all black audience...pulled a beatbox out of crowd for wordmedicine and it was niice...there was an african woman from nigeria who was there who let me know that she thinks my work is relevant and important to women on the planet. she said, as i have so many times, that the main issue confronting women today is that of low self esteem. anything, she said, that can bolster our confidence in ourselves is very necessary.

on a completely unrelated and much shallower note, some things i forgot to mention about boston; they have two urban outfitters and one has three stories!! the architecture is beautiful AND i felt 10 times smarter than i am just being in the vicinity of harvard and mit...more later...cbell