A TYPE OF FREELANCE POET EXPERIENCE

YESTERDAY I WENT TO A INTERESTING BOOK AND TEA SHOP IN SEBASTOPOL.  HE MAY BE ON A RADIO SHOW CALLED KOWS.  I HEARD OF THE MANY RIVERS STORE BEFORE.  THE POET WAS PHIL LAWRENCE WHO ABOUT 12 OR SO POEMS.  ONE OF HIS POEMS WAS ABOUT ALL TYPES OF FRUITS SHAKING THE GROUND AND RIVETING OFF EACH OTHER.  HE LIKED TO SPEAK VS. JUST WRITE.  ANOTHER ONE WAS ABOUT A LION WHO WAS A TEACHER OR A HIGHER SELF.   

PHIL WAS QUITE SOFT SPOKEN AND HIS POEMS WERE4 ABOUT NATURE AND REMINDED ME OF KENNETH REXROTH, ANOTHER BEAT POET WHO HAS PASSED.  HE WROTE AT A STATE PARK WHERE I FOUND SOME OLD REMAINS OF HIS CABIN.  PHIL ALSO LIKES TO BE QUIET.  HE LOOKED KIND OF FRAIL.  HIS TONE WAS NOT VERY FLEXIBLE AND LUCKILY THERE WERE 2 MUSICIANS WHO MADE IT INTERESTING!

THIS EVENT WAS IN A MEDITATION ROOM THAT HAD MOST PEOPLE SLEEPING, MEDITATING OR CLOSING THEIR EYES..  SOME FOLKS WERE INTERESTED IN REPLYING TO SOME OF HIS POETRY.  ONLY IN ONE OF HIS LAST POEMS ABOUT CELEBRATION DID HE SHOW SOME LIGHTER POSITIVE EMOTION.  HIS MUSICIAN SAID SHE WOKE UP SOME NIGHTS AND WROTE SOME MUSIC OF SOME SORT.