editor boy: a computer.
writing boy: a computer, notebooks/journals, my tfp blog, books, many many articles printed from motely sources, music sometimes (listening is a separate activity so i generally don't play much music when i'm doing other things)
piano boy: a piano, bolts, screws, scraps of blown glass, strips of cork, a collection of rubber stoppers, weatherstripping (to prevent things from hitting the struts of the soundboard), an assortment of oddly shaped metal plumbing objects, a glass vase and the demon it is possessed by, several strange pieces of stemware, a woody woodpecker hand fan, two metal spheres with bells in them, 10 lb fishing line with rosin, a pair of soft mallets, a pair of hard mallets, an assortment of laboratory glass items, brass tubes, glass tubes of various types and thickness, a beat up old sun ra arkestra tee-shirt (for gigs that make me nervous). optional items: playskool cassette recorders, bells, a child's violin bow.
a beer for after the performance.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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