Coming Up @ RADAR: Priscilla Lee
Priscilla Lee's Xmas Tree
Hey, I’ve been wanting to have poet Priscilla Lee in a RADAR ever since we read together at one of Stephen Elliot’s excellent literary nights, when she read from her book Wishbone, which I then bought and read myself and liked very much! Priscilla’s poetry is sort of domestic and humorous and feminist and intimate. She’ll be performing TOMORROW at RADAR with Amra Brooks, Greg Youmans, and Fauxnique. At the San Francisco Public Library. 6pm, Free. Peppermint bark. Yeah! Here is a holiday gift from the poet to you.
O Christmas Tree
Today:
1. Hunted for Christmas ornaments at thrift stores. Couldn’t find any I liked inside the store so I climbed into their window display and pulled off the ones I liked. The security guard and cashier were busy tending to shoplifters.
2. The cashier at Wendy’s was lame. We walked out, got into our car, and went through the drive-thru. We parked in the same spot we were in originally. I notice…d they forgot our fries so we drove through the drive-thru again. After all this, we pulled into the same parking space and ate our damn food.
3. Made fun of people in red and green elf-wear trying to hock Christmas trees, twirling their signs around like highschool cheerleaders at a car wash.
4. Drove elsewhere to get a tree where the business didn’t have the overhead of paying for ugly elves in green and red outfits.
5. Pretended I only had $43.97 in cash and got a $55 Christmas tree. (To look legitimately short, make sure $2 of the $45 is in a good mix of quarters, nickles, and pennies–works even better if you leave 3 pennies in your pocket when you count the cash into the seller’s hands as you ask, “do you think I could get a tree for this much?”).
6. Made the short Christmas-tree man carry the 6-foot tree a block to our car.
7. Made the short Christmas-tree man shove the 6-foot tree into our trunk.
8. Drove home with the Christmas tree sticking out of our trunk. The tree was too tall and we couldn’t tie the trunk shut. Making right hand turns was problematic–didn’t want the tree to scrape the car in lane left of us.
9. Pushed the tree through the back door. The tree flew into the back room. Fir needles everywhere. Even on top of the bookshelves.
10. Decorated the tree with homemade ornaments made by someone else.
1. Hunted for Christmas ornaments at thrift stores. Couldn’t find any I liked inside the store so I climbed into their window display and pulled off the ones I liked. The security guard and cashier were busy tending to shoplifters.
2. The cashier at Wendy’s was lame. We walked out, got into our car, and went through the drive-thru. We parked in the same spot we were in originally. I notice…d they forgot our fries so we drove through the drive-thru again. After all this, we pulled into the same parking space and ate our damn food.
3. Made fun of people in red and green elf-wear trying to hock Christmas trees, twirling their signs around like highschool cheerleaders at a car wash.
4. Drove elsewhere to get a tree where the business didn’t have the overhead of paying for ugly elves in green and red outfits.
5. Pretended I only had $43.97 in cash and got a $55 Christmas tree. (To look legitimately short, make sure $2 of the $45 is in a good mix of quarters, nickles, and pennies–works even better if you leave 3 pennies in your pocket when you count the cash into the seller’s hands as you ask, “do you think I could get a tree for this much?”).
6. Made the short Christmas-tree man carry the 6-foot tree a block to our car.
7. Made the short Christmas-tree man shove the 6-foot tree into our trunk.
8. Drove home with the Christmas tree sticking out of our trunk. The tree was too tall and we couldn’t tie the trunk shut. Making right hand turns was problematic–didn’t want the tree to scrape the car in lane left of us.
9. Pushed the tree through the back door. The tree flew into the back room. Fir needles everywhere. Even on top of the bookshelves.
10. Decorated the tree with homemade ornaments made by someone else.
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