Caroline Picard introducing the readers to the assembled souls as faint strains of a Mayday Cinco de Mayo concert bleed through the plate glass windows

Caroline Picard wears rad shoes.

Inspired by the ambient sounds of the band next door, playing a melange of ska and salsa, Devin King hearkens back to his teen years spent in a Ska band devoted to singing about the goodness of music.

Devin King reads from CLOPS, his book-length retelling of *The Odyssey*, which uses 'lyrical language, repetition and abstraction,' ultimately, 'implicating the reader in the action of war.' Hearing it live was a powerful experience as the long lines and repetitions did indeed bleed into the subconsciouses of his listeners and compel them towards the bloody realities of his text.

Some of the gathered souls absorbing Devin King's *CLOPS*.

John Beer follows with 'The Perfumed Crypt, or Four Quarters in Eight Bits,' which features Lancôme, Uma Thurman, and, in this slide, a snowy scene involving our hero and perfumier Armand Petitjean's mad quest to give 'women the most beautiful things possible.'

'That light that shines from within, her ability to marvel, the zest for life that emanates from her smile all make Uma Thurman the ideal choice for the Lancôme Woman.'

'God in my broken mouth. / Imagine them dancing without light.'