Beat poets had a trick back in the day - to write and not take a word back To meander in and out to find the truth of where their minds reside And so here to honour that tradition, we wonder in the open-ness

Sitting at peace for a moment I feel it And then the door opens and life rushes in I remember again the pain that she feels the confusion of failure against expectations the realisation that hope doesn't

The paths we walk are changing ever if we choose to see a small thing gone, (here or there there or here) unseen amongst the busyness as we go about our business. The small things that make up life: missed.

Pittsburgh rockers John Vento and Dave Granati, comedian/writer Matt Wohlfarth, & former music exec, Jim Pitulski team to create the 50s Beat Poetry, “Vices.” It started as a poem. Comic veteran and

* Click the video to hear the spoken word: hard hit to the heart heavy handed & headstrong shiny blue on high perhaps holy like a hermit commanding heathen with a heckle like holler somehow there is