good things come

Oh my god, you guys, Adrienne Rich is coming to Portland next Monday! I'm as excited about this as I was about my first concert (Def Leppard -- '88... wow...) -- Adrienne Rich, you guys! Come on! That's fucking awesome!

You know... Adrienne Rich -- my favorite poet?! The name of this blog comes from my favorite of her poems! Adrienne Rich is like the mother of this blog! And she's fucking awesome! And I just bought a 12 dollar student ticket to see her at some church downtown and I'm as excited about this as... well... like I said... Def Leppard at 13.

Funny, too, b/c I never would've known it was happening except for this annoying woman on the bus this afternoon who was talking soooo loud! She was all the way at the back of the bus, but she was talking so loud it was like she was on a stage, performing a monologue for us, a captive audience. She was so obnoxiously loud, people kept turning around to look at her. Talking about politics and local shit and criticizing everything and saying things like "but I guess I'm just a socialist! Although, you can't say anything like that anymore, they'll put you in jail." On and on.

But then she said "Oh, and Adrienne Rich is coming to town, yadda yadda yadda," and my heart actually stopped beating for a few seconds after that. So I grabbed my notebook and made a quick note: "Adrienne Rich is coming? Look it up." And I did. Thank god for the obnoxious woman on the bus. I'm so excited.

Only sad (and very sad) that SK isn't here to come with me. She'd love it.

Yay!! Adrienne Rich!!