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aliciasaxearts
Location
South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Birthday
February 17
Title
owner
Company
Glass souls
Bio
I am an artist, writer, photographer and dancer. I studied art and film as an undergrad at Berkeley, Journalism and Film at B.U. Outstanding graduate student, full scholarships through studies. My parents were an acting teacher with the actors studio in NY and a dancer with the first Balanchine company. I had tremendous exposure to the arts from the time I was a tot. Wrote and read at a very early age. Poetry is also a hobby as are children's books I illustrate and children's rhyming poetry. I worked as a writer at the Sunpost newspaper in Miami Beach for 3 years doing 2nd front page profiles of people in the arts and critiques on art, film, dance, and music. I photographed live music in the club scene and I also shoot a lot of different photographs, which I have also done professionally. I also worked at a post production editing house for 35 mm. film. I now paint glass, do collage, and write. I practice yoga and am knowledgeable about nutrition and health.

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JUNE 5, 2010 11:46PM

tRIPPy city, Trippy Town

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It has been a trippy day, in a trippy time zone, in a trippy city.  South Beach, the bitch, the itch

 

 

 

 

that needs a scratch, the city with a rash, ashen, fallen, zoned out, shouting.

 

Lot of loss, cost high, stolen items, ad infinitim

 

 

It is just rude, intrusive and using

 

City for your bruising

Introduction to the wierd

 

You are steered wrong’

On a regular basis

 

Is there redemption

In this hell here?

 

Well, here it is.

It is a city of many sentences.

Without a rhyme or reason

It is treason of sorts’

To have so many cultures

And so many vultures

Living, alive,

breathing,

Seething

 

It has been a heavy month

In an oppressive week

Hurricane season

swimming home almost

The host of heat,

the damp city that doesn’t greet

but hollers

 

WE ARE HERE

GET IT, GOT IT

Good

 

You are in the hood

of broken dreams

And nothing seems

as it should

in the local

neighborhood

 

Good I am still alive,

breathing,

seething with song

In spite of what has gone wrong

Getting along anyway

 

With a little help from my friends

In the end,

 

We all win

From knowing how to thin

an unpinnable direction down

 

 

I clown,

and laugh, and screetch

 

Cheech and Chang, still funny

 

day still sunny

Muggy, damp, I cramp

and umcramp my legs

 

my lungs

my feet

Trying to beat the pavement

from crowding in on me

 

Retreat to silence

and white walls

and laundry

and food

and a smoky haze

 

Days, months, hours

climbing,

crawling

I stand,

as a gypsy

and twirl my colors around

 

I stand resillient

 

resplendent

Happy, Proud

ALoud, I sing

 

 

 

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I liked the idea of a city with many sentances. Thanks.
It sounds like a sad place....But you end optimistically! Good job!
"a trippy city.
South Beach,
the bitch, the itch
that needs a scratch,
the city with a rash,
ashen, fallen,
zoned out, shouting.
Lot of loss, cost high,
stolen items, ad infinitim"

This reminds me a little of Ginsberg. Excellent!
Very nice.. love the beat, agree it needs to be read aloud Mingus a good choice...