Stone Soup Servings is a regular series for Oddball Magazine that features upcoming performers at Stone Soup Poetry, the long-running spoken word venue in the Boston area that has partnered with Oddball Magazine. Stone Soup Poetry now meets from 7-9 p.m. every Monday at the Out of The Blue Art Gallery at 541 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square Cambridge, Massachusetts. The open mike sign-up at 6:30 p.m.

On Monday, May 16, we have Lee Litif and Mark Hänser returning to Stone Soup. Lee Litif needs to be both seen and heard to be believed, but we have Mark Hänser on deck to read. We hope to see you in the gallery this Monday.

 

Long Beach Lactose
dedicated, with courtesy, to Alan Borie,
Curt Leber, Kurt Benbenek + Ben Ferrer

velvet elvis, leather pelvis
tell me what 12×12 is
144 ways to deceive your lover
voodoo’s coming, run for cover

hip hop, don’t stop
never mind the traffic cop
long beach light, so goddam bright
the only way, to end today
is with tonight

brazil nuts, bare butts
rock’n’roll mikshake, Ipanema struts
get breast-fed in yo’ head, sing
“sugar loaf mama, come sweeten my bed”

hip hop, don’t stop
never mind the traffic cop
long beach light, so goddam bright
the only way, to end today
is with tonight

jet setter, send a letter
u know u can do better
paper towel lyrics, so atmospheric
bionic, ironic, byronic, shakespearic!

hip hop, don’t stop
never mind the traffic cop
long beach light, so goddam bright
but sunset comes, and it’s all right
all right