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Thanksgiving Menu Poem 2010 Guest of Honor: David Shapiro
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Dear Poetryetc,
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Hello and thank you for coming to this years Thanksgiving poem menu. This year we
are honoring David Shapiro with a truly experimental dinner, a meal made up of different
courses of dessert items. This may sound weird, but as this is set up, it would
act very nicely as a full meal. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed putting
this together.
This has been a real honor to work with Mr. Shapiro in mind. He is so very influential
to everything I seem to understand / admire / embody as art, it is hard to extricate
what it is in my memories of what comes from him and what flows through him. Like
one wondering if the fun from a cherry comes from the red color or the unique taste.
And it was this quick, poorly developed metaphor that toddled it's way on towards
the notion to have a full seven-course meal consisting solely of dessert. I have
never had the occasion to do such a thing, a full dinner of dessert, as there is
little call for it. This is exactly why this is perfect for David Shapiro. I am
a trained chef and I have the ability to prepare this meal but I do have to say
that if he came to my home, I would, of course, cook him a fine meal of vegetables
and other common comestibles. But for poetry, a paper plate, and a paper soup, why
not?
There is a wonderful story that David once played violin for John Lennon. David
is an accomplished violinist and this must have been quite the treat to play music
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has reached the souls of so many. And it is in this spirit that this dinner menu
came about, David emailed me to ask if I would do one for him. And I can tell you;
it was a happy thing to receive that request! I love David and his poems, in that
way one loves and sees John Lennon's body of work. In the making of this work, I
went at it with the glee I can only imagine he played his violin.
Be sure to come back next year! Hurray and thanks!
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Sincerely,
Geoffrey Gatza
BlazeVOX [books]
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