San Fernando Will Not Forget This Moment

Our previous reminder just didn't cut it––

Even a butcher needs to butt in with the meat.

San Fernando Rd is alive and we don't want to kill it!

So we plant our flunky banner in the street:

Ahem.

Come see Gabriela Jauregui collect herself for the very first time,

in a book no less!

Why would she do it? The narrator puts his monocle on: "by gum, what a strange affair!"

At least 23 artists have cordoned off 23 miles of San Fernando to make the point:

This lady needs a witness!

Or... that's where you come in.

(sound of mental camera a-rolling, crickety-crank)

... ... ...

Walk hard, Starstruck Troopers, and do it our way, cuz as Teddy Bear Berrigan had it:

"My heart Your heart

That's the American Way

& so,

FUCK OR WALK!

It's the American Way"

Which is why all the 'art guerillas' get out

or get out of the way

to make a day of our post-pedestrianism.

What's the sound of 23 Angelenos walking? Can you hear it?!

That's what we've come to find out.

Perloff sez Gabriela has "perfect pitch". But we don't buy it!

The sneakiest poets are sharpies or flat-footed, and make a music of the accidentals.

(Here's a perfect pitch, btw!)

R. Duncan: If you haven't entered the dance / you've misunderstood the event.

Did I paraphrase? Well, fuck or walk, maybe I did: This event is new!

Come tell Gabriela to sing off key!

Unlock that responsibility!

& thusly examine: Controlled Decay.

Published by Black Goat / Akashic Books

A Book Release Party for Gabriela Jauregui

Sunday, June 8 2008, 4:30pm

@ The Poetic Research Bureau

3702 San Fernando Rd.

Glendale, CA 91206

Doors open at 4:30pm

Reading starts at 5:00pm

& San Fernando Road Concert events from 5-9pm.

This gig is free. Save your bucks, and buy a book:

It's yr future:

The PRB Vortex. b/c

We've earned it.