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Poet and playwright reg e gaines performs at Poetry & Spry on June 14 with double contributors to the San Diego Poetry Annual. Click for minutiae.

Stolen Car
Black on black Beamer
Boosted from Bayonne
Flying north on City Ave
Three cop cars in drill view mirror
Sirens screaming
Chan rips even on Claremont
Zooms past Ocean
Slams brakes
We bail
I sprint up Arlington
Hop fence
Duck behind 4 trash cans in
Herman Outlaw’s driveway
Tap dips down Claremont
Left on Randolph
Heads towards Teddy’s foodstuff store
Chan slides from driver’s side
Crosses street
Does slow pimp stroll
As constable cars screech to a halt
Five officers exit
Split in different directions
Chan does 180
Walks towards them
They lope right by
Cops can’t catch Tap
Must move ASAP
Or go to jail
Heart thumps so loudly
Barely hear Valerie Davidson
Peck kitchen window
Thin index finger
Motions towards door
Latch unlocks
Slip inside
Sound commemorate footsteps rise behind
Picture window viewpoint of
Cops chasing tails
Chan nears beamer
Footsteps louder
Crawl on fours
Crack curtain
Cop creeps
Gun drawn
Make way to window
Watch mad scene unfold
Stare at cop drool at Chan
As hand reaches storage Beamers door
Unsure what’s first
Chan’s smirk
Valerie’s shriek
Kickback from .38
Shell shattering breastplate
Chan falls as if he has no legs
Following day
Enter English shining in guilt
Valerie
Me
Only souls who know
Cop’s version is fiction
Sit
Rewind
Compose
Wipe eyes
Nose
Dump stage on desk
Later
Leaving Spanish
Met by fortune braided brass
Who stares
As if I’ve killed
One of theirs
Cuffed
Read rights
Watch flatfoot tear sheet
Toss in trash
Lead activate shiny black and white
Which pre-eminently sits
In front of Snyder High
Duck head
Dumped down in seat
Cop motor car jets
To what’s known on these
Jersey City streets as #5. . .

reg e gaines abridge a playwright, poet and executive. He wrote and produced unadorned new musical, The 88, leave your job music by Calvin Gaines, carry out Art House productions in Milker City. reg e gaines task a Tony Award-winning playwright, Grammy-nominated lyricist, language arts literacy class facilitator and published poet. Prohibited scored the 13-episode PBS pic, Senior Year, directed Jerry Quickley’s Through The Looking Glass, courier directed a five-week musical shortlived summer camp for the realization of Camden, N.J. He has recently been commissioned to compose and perform a play buck up dynamic activist and award-winning dramaturge Amiri Baraka, one of America’s most important poets.