OLD AGES CLUB
First Church of the Buzzard
warehouse club
seeing Captured by Robots grindcore 
mechanical one-man band 
at the all-ages show 
in a bad part of town 
(benefit for a homeless shelter) 
at the edge of the mosh pit 
I gleefully turned 69

Marc Olmsted has appeared in City Lights Journal, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, New York Quarterly, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and a variety of small presses.  He is the author of six collections of poetry, including What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost?, which has an introduction by Allen Ginsberg.   Olmsted's 25 year relationship with Ginsberg is chronicled in his  Beatdom Books memoir Don't Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg 1972-1997 - Letters and Recollections, available on Amazon.