Mom taught me to fit 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag. Said it was a Polish thing. Part of my heritage. The part I can't figure out, is what my ancestors were doing with all that shit in the first place.

When books were still for the very rich, when they were hand written by monks, me and my pal Socrates used to have to memorize entire volumes of text on the spot. We knew we may never get to see that book again, and when we were engaged in deep and important conversations about why all Mudcatters are white, right handed heterosexuals, we could cite these important texts from memory to solidify and augment our arguments.

Plus, we had no pockets and there was not a lot of storage space on the streets (it was before shopping carts were invented).

It has been proposed that the invention of the printing press, then paperback books, now computers and the internet are destroying our facility of memory. From my observation at song circles, these song books we lug around are ruining us.

I'm going back to the streets…