IN PRAISE OF

UT WRITERS CENTER
where 9000 students each year are immersed
in literacy dialogues with grad students,tutors and writing staff
Primacy of skills transfer person to person,unmoderated and non-directional
add to the frisson of evolving consciousness,applied to living texts
otherwise known as conscious and conscientious learners-
writers of the future,in the hear and know

HEB
where poets stack shelves after midnight
where prices are low enough for every empty pocket
where every tuesday,seniors are honored
where food banks are supported
where our friend was once undercover
and confronted an armed robber
and was discouraged from chasing him
as theft is never worth a life

OPEN MIKES
where the unexpected becomes anticipated
where collaboration and improvisation speak and listen
where play of consciousness conjures new thoughtforms
where u becomes every letter of the alpha beta

ACCENT MOTORS
once slackers,outlaws,rebels and thieves
now achieving professionalism via treating people
with respect/and cars with consonant skills
where the new premises await occupancy permits
and an opening ceremony can again conjure up
poetry and music in a Lebanese South Austin family business