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DESCRIPTION:San Francisco authors read from their work. That means you, too. \nSan 
 Francisco located stories given preference. \nMic-less open-mic. 
 \n\nLoose-leaf authors \nscat \nter \nwords in \nthe wind sha \ndow \nof a 
 library \n\nThis week James Lawrence reads his $200 prize-winning short 
 story, Stiltson. \n\n$20 prize for the best Real Estate-centric poem!! 
 \n\nHERE'S A PAST BERNAL LITTERATI WINNER: \n\n\nI've got an electric 
 bi-i-eek \nI've got an electric bi-eek \nSometimes I don't switch it on, 
 but \nIt's still easy to ride; \nI listen closely to the talk I cruise by, 
 and \nMost everyone has something, \nSomewhere they're going; \nEven when I 
 pass by the mortuary, \nThe nomads in tents face the statutory, \nPropane 
 camp tanks feeding Fentanyl to the masses, \nAnd men and women all making 
 passes. \nRussian oil splattered roadkill debris; \nI hit every red light 
 when I ride this street, \nBut still I only hear half that I meet: \nI'm 
 still too fast for the others; \nListen now, sisters and brothers, \nI ride 
 an electric bi-i-eek \nI ride an electric bi-eek \n\n\nAND HERE'S ANOTHER 
 \n\nThere are murals around town painted Rubin Rude: \nThe faces of public 
 places \nSuch as, for instance, the Bernal Branch library's eastern wall. 
 \n\nIt strikes me, though, that in Women's History Month \nWomen muralists 
 ought to get half the space, don't you think? \nEvery year we ought to put 
 the vertical places up for auction \nSo that who does the talkin' isn't 
 just who got there first. \n\nYeah, let the boys pay the girls not to put 
 up stuff if \nThe boys want to keep that public viewshed theirs. \nI mean, 
 if the girls like the stuff already there, \nDon't bid for the space. Let 
 it ride. \n\nBut humdinger, if Benioff wants to shout to the world \nWith 
 that great big outie thing, but some gal with a brush \nAnd a can of paint 
 has something to say, \nI say make him have to pay her not to splash her 
 story in the air. \nIt's our sky, isn't it? \nWell isn't it? \n\nLAST 
 WEEK'S $20 WINNER:\n\n700 trees down in San Francisco;\nTheir roots loose 
 in the rain-bloated earth,\nTheir boughs yardarms caught in gale after 
 gale\nTill the keelson snapped,\nCracking sidewalks into white-capping 
 chop. \nAnd elsewhere, everywhere, all around town it’s a raggedy old 
 place,\nBent and shorn by plague and\nA long, wet winter the likes not seen 
 for 44 years—\nMe too, long in the tooth, long on remembrance, no longer 
 merely a lad with big ears for the old-timers’ tales, \nBut myself 
 witness, back then, to the longest pleated turns of sun and drenching 
 winter storm-blown screaming Hell ever known by living soul. \nAnd you? 
 Don’t ask, don’t tell\nLest I pop your skaldic, pompous truth,\nWhich, 
 like mine,\nNever heard from Noah’s lips \nThe whopper drowned the world. 
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/04/05/18855278.php
SUMMARY:Bernal Litterati [sic]
LOCATION:amphitheater at the corner of the Bernal Branch library\n500 Cortland Ave. 
 \nSan Francisco
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