Come to “Haunt Wall St.,” Occupy Houston’s open mic poetry night this Sunday, Oct. 30th from 5:00-8:00pm!
We are calling all poets, performers, and musicians to sign up for a slot at our delicious, devious evening of original works, readings of great poems, essays, and speeches, and songs!
We will meet at Tranquility Park at 5pm, and enjoy performances until 7pm, when the group will walk and recite to the Wells Fargo building, declaiming from the sidewalk!
Join us for an evening of spooktacular literary delights!
11 Responses to “Are you ready to Haunt Wall Street?”
I originally posted this on the wrong spot. So here I go again:
I wish I could attend the poetry reading but I cannot so here is something for you all:
WMC (weapons of Mass Confusion)
We watch them debate over how to screw the sheep
Yes Obama, Boehner and the rest of the pig farmers are all in session
It’s not a matter of bidding for the lobbyist assassins anymore
Cause the death of the Middle class comes in the form of the next Great depression
Ah, yes I have told my fellow lubed up, hardworking, unskilled comrades
I really hope they serve some cream of potato in the soup kitchen
Because nothing else weathers the cold hard welfare winters
Like a hand me down bowl of soup and a suicidal debt affliction
Because we will have no one else to blame but ourselves
The American people picked the great black minority hope
With the mythical legendary belief that he was not there to lie us
Yes don’t tell me you didn’t buy into the free sample of dope
Because remember our addiction to the oncoming poverty
Is a motherfucking, god given, flag waving choice
So what, that most Americans are so ill informed about the system
That we keep throwing money into a void that absorbs the common voice
Yes, I like so many others that are angered by the campaigning media blitz
Of our over privileged patsy leaders with all powerful weapons of mass confusion
May not understand all the information that only partially been given to us
And yes the road is not brick or gold, just a yellowish piss and bullshit fusion
Cause the great OZ on the Panasonic box tells us all is ok
No time to click your heels against the thick red tape of our economic downfall
This is only surpassed by a mix of blame game and reality television
And yes get ready for four more years of screaming at the wall
Great! We can have a proxy reader for you. Any specific requests as to the reading of the piece?
It is free reign as far as I am concerned who reads it. Just expressing some support
on October 26th, 2011 at 12:37 am #
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What kind of message are we trying to send by saying “Haunt Wall Street”? One of the definitions of the word “haunt” is “to continually seek the company of”. Is there a risk that people may think we are saying we continually seek the company of Wall Street? Another definition is “to visit as a ghost”. Are we saying we are merely gossamer aberrations? Should we not be projecting a much stronger image of ourselves to Wall Street. Is the “haunt” only meant to coincide with Halloween? Is there a danger that our message might be confused with Trick or Treating? Could people think we are expecting Wall Street to hand out candy to us? Perhaps we need to have another GA to discuss this in more detail.
This is a cultural event. It is associated with Halloween. we will be going to Wells Fargo, a symbol of Wall St. The specters of bankers and faceless corporations have haunted us for years.
I want to respectfully point out to you that the danger of our message being confused for trick or treaters is much smaller than the danger of us disappearing all together for lack of presence in people’s minds. it is a poetic turn of phrase, to ‘haunt’ wall st.
discussing the name ‘haunt wall st.’ at length at the ga… is it that important?
Wouldn’t “Terrorize Wall Street” sound more forceful?
We conceived of it as somewhat more contemplative, since we’ll be having a house of horrors on saturday.
I will be there to read my poetry!
Do you guys realize you have commercials for big business on your web page?
What would be appropriate and meaningful for the banking folks to see, would be Halloween costumes marching in an order to represent the TREAT AND TRICK on America. Costumes representing “Banks”, such as Wells Fargo Zombies or Bank of America Zombies. Some with the dates of OCTOBER 1929 and others with OCTOBER 2008 highly visible on their costumes. The very months that the two worst economic meltdowns to happen to this country took place.
A “good” costume representing a Nation Saving Law named “GLASS-STEGAL 1933″ should follow directly behind the October 1929 Zombies. Trendy “MIDDLE CLASS RISING” costumes, representing the growth of American society, should follow “GLASS-STEGAL”.
A death costume (Darth Vader) named “DEATH TO GLASS-STEGAL 2002″ with a nick-name of 2BIG2FAIL should follow “Glass-Stegal” costume. Follow this costume with the OCTOBER 2008 Bank zombies.
Costumes representing the 99PERCENTERS should then follow, with diversified representations of all Americans. Behind all these, should follow the LAST zombies – costumes of a dead bank, a zombie Lobbist or Wall Street Hedge Fund with OCTOBER 2012 displayed.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Maybe Halloween costumes marching, protesting in the correct chronological order will do the same.
Protesting against a giant tide is very hard work. But you can be loyal to your country, loyal to yourselves…and have a little fun while doing it.