Listen to Shin Splints, the latest
Backwards Ninja (Microphone
Hippie) track HERE.
Joe returned last October from
distributing malaria nets in
Tanzania, south-east Africa. Stay
tuned for details from his journey
here
Joe previewed new work at
InsideStoryTime last winter, SF
Weekly's 2006 Best New Reading
Series.
JOE CERVELIN reviews a zombie
anthology, an post-apocalypse
anthology, an Ol Dirty Bastard
biography, Eminem's memoir and
more at The Rumpus.
Microphone Hippie are currently
editing their music videos for
"Shin Splints" and "Coffee Time"
- premiering this spring!
©2009 Joe Cervelin
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Joe Cervelin was featured in the SF Bay Guardian
as a winner of the Lit123 contest (the challenge:
describe San Francisco in exactly 123 words).
BEFORE LIGHT CHANGES
Pick a hill. Jump between vantage points. You can
spring the entire city, like a kinged checker, or a
queen. Morphing like Mad Magazine, folding
corners B to A, bending time.
A pharmacy goes BBQ. Sushi boats drift through
your unconscious. You got dragged aboard, then
woke with a craving. Across, in that park: you've
tasted heartbreak, and smelled funny dancing,
and shot hoops with crumpled resumes, and been
winded by a jog.
The city gasps for air just before rush hour, after
running all day, breathing hard. Cue the fog. Now
it's dim: the 'Sco does twister yoga, or the funky
gargoyle, gone buck or cupcakin'. A sushi float
parades the bay, always revolving, barely
perceptible; you're on board, and circling too.