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Giving away The 1 Copy of CatOwl to David Sedaris felt like sacrificing my queen. Afterward, at a bar called The Blue Duck, I pensively ordered 3 drinks: a club soda, a Coca-Cola, and a shot of tequila. CatOwl is a children’s book for adults. For six years, seven illustrators helped me build its 19-masterpiece spreads into the chimera-universe: VallhallOlympus. The 7th illustrator, Maria Koalas, and I created 3 failed hardcover misprints. Then I constructed The 1 Copy with a mirror page of...

I stare at glowing smoke burning by my finger tips. I haven’t smoked a thing since training singer’s lips. This jolly man passed a blunt like black Santa Claus he applauds my freestyle on corruption in the law. There’s only one rule in this circle cypher moment: we celebrate now together - that’s how we own it. It's a privilege to be heard by men who have not; I am not the enemy, since I also combat chaos. I stare down at this gift of marijuana in the night the brown paper contrasts how...

I accidentally had to do some abstract mental mathematics today when I needed to print my Life Story Poem  script double-sided. In retrospect, the solution was obvious, though getting there required passing through a very uncomfortable fog of confusion. Here’s why: The problem became clear during rehearsal. My co-musician, Doc the Drummer, was struggling to flip through my script while playing the cajón during several duets we co-wrote (him on cajón, me on harp). We were in my set room, and...