Eileen St. Louis

Jimmy Fallon, replacing Conan? And the Roots as his back up band? Has America gone completely topsy turvy since I left? The Village Voice is thinner and more full of ads than ever. Gentrification is clearly on the rise- I havent seen more hipsters in Fort Greene and Lower East Side than at a Hipster Convention in an art gallery of noise bands. Is it me, or am I very disillusioned? I have seen how the other side of the world lives and the U.S. seems small and very outdated in comparison. Even with the recession, people seem very materialistic (filling that emptiness with a coach bag) and to be honest, self-centered, all about getting what's theirs. I pick up spiritual magazines full of white bred gurus promising happiness in a two hour beatnik workshop. Meanwhile, there are still poor people of color doing most of the menial labor while the reigning class play tennis, complaining that Obama is giving handouts and all illegal immigrants need to stop cleaning my b...

With the ballerina mini-hippo: Lil' waves lapping at the shore What are they saying to me? Loose ends of a crying industry Await music of tremoring palm trees The sand melting until like skin Dreamless sleep makes the nights long The ocean pleads like a lover Lost in a drought of memories Familiar faces push forward by the tides Mixed naked as the changing sun.