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