Frank OHara reading from Lunch Poems

Stevi-Lee Alver 2014-07-29 | Frank O'Hara reading 'The Day Lady Died' and 'Song' from Lunch Poems.

Eileen Myles: I Must Be Living Twice

Stevi-Lee Alver 2016-05-29 | Eileen Myles reading 'The Sadness of Leaving' at Footbridge Theatre, University of Sydney, May 26 2016.

Everything’s
so far away—
my jacket’s
over there. I’m terrified
to go & you
won’t miss me
I’m terrified by the
bright blues of
the subway
other days I’m
so happy &
prepared to believe
that everyone walking
down the street is
someone I know.
The oldness of Macy’s
impresses me. The
wooden escalators
as you get
higher up to the furniture,
credit, lampshades—
You shopped here
as a kid. Oh,
you deserve me! In
a movie called
Close Up—once in
a while the wiggly
bars, notice
the wiggly blue
bars of
subway entrances,
the grainy beauty,
the smudge. I won’t
kill myself today. It’s
too beautiful. My heart
breaking down 23rd
St. To share this
with you, the
sweetness of the
frame. My body
in perfect shape
for nothing but
death. I want
to show you this.
On St. Mark’s Place
a madman screams:
my footsteps, the
drumbeats of Armageddon.
Oh yes bring me
closer to you Lord.
I want to die
Close Up. A handful
of bouncing yellow
tulips for David. I
admit I love tulips
because they
die so beautifully.
I
see salvation in
their hanging heads.
A beautiful exit. How do
they get to
feel so free? I am
trapped by love—
over french fries
my eyes wander to
The Hue Bar. A blue
sign. Across the
life. On my way to
making a point,
to making
logic, to not
falling in love to-
night and
let my pain remain
unwrapped—to push
the machine—Paul’s
staying in touch, but
oh remember Jessica
Lange, she looked so
beautiful all
doped up, on her
way to meet King
Kong. I sit
on my little red
couch in February
how do they get
to feel so free
1,000,000 women
not me moving through
the street tonight
of this filmy
city & I
crown myself
again & again
and there
can’t be
two kings.

Martyr

Stevi-Lee Alver 2013-08-05 | The manager posted a video of the mother's son killing plovers.

Moving Memories

Stevi-Lee Alver 2013-05-12 | Design Project Three Southern Cross University

Chameleon by Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters
sounds from freesound.com

Stein & Jarrett

Stevi-Lee Alver 2013-05-11 | Gertrude Stein reading 'If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso', and Keith Jarrett's The Köln concert, "Part I".