This is the Exorcist reporting the happenings at the Lounge August 14th. Saul Williams guested promoting a show that he's doing downtown I think. Somebody gave out flyers for it. I think his poem was about 10 minutes long. He received a standing ovation from about half the crowd. Slim did his hiphop sellout rap and brought the house down. Sekou did a piece I hadn't heard before. Poetri won the bet he had going between him, Shihan and Gimel. They had to do one new poem a week. They repeated so they had to buy him dinner. One guy ended the night with a poem on his love of 18 year old girls. Shihan felt so weird about the poem he decided to end on someone else. Babu and another poet had it like Wu-Tang. Attack of the killer B's. They both did poems that had a lot of B words in. One girl did a very moving poem about a guy that flew from one state to live with her, leaving his family and after three weeks she realized he wasn't for her but he still loved her. They slept backbone to backbone. In two weeks they're going to have the slam and in the first half they are going to have a bachelor and bachelorette auction. The women will be chaperoned. I forgot to say that Poetri's poem was about what he learned from other people. This has been a message from the Exorcist.Da Poetry Lounge
Tuesdays at 9
Greenway Court Theater
544 N. Fairfax Ave.
213-390-7072
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