boxing match tonight

poet vs. secretary face-off.
Match tonight, 8 PM, in Surveillance Arena

Boxer will play referee.
Audience identities encrypted for security.
Stay late for boxer's testimony on how he fought & won the trial with the poem.

unedited

Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, David Amram, Arthur's Landing @ Housing Works, NYC 2013.

in Klee

Man on the Street interviews in Renaldo & Clara

Shooting in Harlem outside the Apollo Theater 

Camera Operator asks a few kids

hey what do ya know about Rubin Carter? 

interviewer: 

Have you benefitted at all from 9 years in prison?

has it done anything positive for you? 

camera cuts away before an answer, music blares. 

no time for a circus. 

camera man films a man eating a hamburger outside the apollo.

Camera man tell hamburger eater:

yeah I think he's innocent too, why is he in there? 

Man between bites: 

"I'm not surprised. I'm not looking for justice in this country"

courtroom theater frame up

Bradley Manning Trial day 2 

Kop

providing its own Law

music says "Permanent Revolution"
and the bourgeoisie hear "Evolution, Progress."

And even if, among the young intellectuals, a few understand it
won't their present impotence
make them see this Liberation as beautiful myth,
instead of their own reality