Recently the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee asked me to come to their student union, set up my typewriter and type up poems for their students in honor of National Poetry Month. Additionally they asked if I could type a poem in response to each participant's dance move. When I asked what the music was going to be they said that there was no music to be played, just people dancing for me. So I brought along a crank style music toy that plays one song, "Greensleeves," and each time a student came up to me I cranked for them the ancient, morose tune. After they danced for me I'd write them their poem.
Typewritten Portraits from the June Night Market
People come up to me, tell me their name and then I stare into their face until a poem emerges. When I was finish I draw a picture of their face on top of the poem WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE PAPER, only at their face.
He wanted me to draw him for a dollar.