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Bottle This! Just hold on before we go any farther – I want to take a moment to talk about water. That liquid that you’re holding, that bottle in your hand, you though it was water you were drinking, not a corporate brand. You thought it was cleaner and safer, and better for your health, [...]
upon his visit to Toronto in 2002 for World Youth Day Dear Pope I hope you enjoyed your stay in Toronto for World Youth Day and for the pleasure of your company, the city paid 7 million dollars, but hey! That’s okay! ‘Cause he’s the Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope, Pope! Yeah we pulled out all [...]
I’m a rover, seldom sober I’m a young lass, gay and free I’m always single when I’m drinking Never a man will marry me! “Oh my young lass, fair and pretty, I’ve been watching you,†said he “Gold and silver and riches a-plenty will be yours if you’ll marry me!†“Oh young man, I thank [...]
Once in a Blue Moon: Minneapolis, Minnesota. With my book and my pen and behind the counter a girl with blue hair serves the java and Ani Difranco provides the backdrop of yet another alternative coffee shop just like the one I worked at way back when we had her first album then the one [...]
This piece was written for a CBC songwriting event at Hugh’s Room in Toronto, 2005, as a response to the theme “My Favorite Book”. I’m afraid my choice is not very original I searched my bookshelf, trying to be intellectual obscure, unique, a book that no one else would find, I searched my heart and [...]
My tribute to everyone’s favorite DIY, Scandanavian furniture empire… hear it on Small Theatres, Ivar and Sten, Ivar and Sten: I feel like I’m living with big Swedish men in my bedroom and bathroom and kitchen and den: my burly companions, Ivar and Sten. Klinga and Omar, Duktig and Benn, My home is so organized [...]
Let me introduce myself, my name is Always; I like to think I’m a girl’s best friend… I fit into your purse by folding myself small-ways; I know I’m just the means to an end! oh the end is clean, the end is out of sight. the end still smells fresh at the end of [...]
i. The Yonge/University Line We begin our journey at Mount Pleasant and Eglinton: walking from school to the subway station me and my grade ten crush, circa 1987 he was in grade 11 and his name was Mason. As we walk and we talk I feel my words start to flutter like my language is [...]
My friend Katie’s got a white horse, and on it she will ride, can’t find god in the city, so she’s going to the countryside, what will she find? I’ve got friends all over the place, think I’ll drive ‘round to see them, stop and play a few tunes, ‘cause music is my freedom, so [...]
Lost in the library This poem was written and recorded live for the CBC Radio event Chapter & Verse, at the National Library of Canada in 2004. The theme we were given to write on was “Lost in the library”. Here’s what I came up with…. I was beginning to wonder why you were never [...]
My Swedish Roommates
Stone and Bumblebee