Fat Albert's Outpatient Folk Clinic

A coffeehouse, caf as society..."Acid wit, deep insight, humor, powerful metaphor, intelligence.... A smooth ride on a bumpy road, with side trips into unseen hollows of the human experience.... What else do you need to know? An excellent read, worth sharing far and wide... More, please...."Prose poems that are a paean to Musicians, Writers, Artists, & Wingnuts: to folksingers, the troubled and disturbed, open mic nights everywhere.The poet made it out alive from Fat Albert's.A satiric, and loving, tribute to open mic nights everywhere, whether in coffeehouses, on campus, or in living-rooms of the desperately demented.The ironies and distinctions that make for unintended humor and discreet or not so discreet satire, as well as the tenderness evoked through an awareness of the frailties and too-human vulnerabilities of the denizens of Fat Albert's Outpatient Folk Clinic.While tending towards a metaphor of the world and entertainment as just such a clinic for the disturbed, there is evidence of the mastery of the writer in these expressions of the unconventional, and the absurd, which allows us entry to our own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions of the world at large as one bigger Fat Albert's Outpatient Folk Clinic.