Meet Ken Nordine

I was listening to Enright's CBC radio show on Sunday, and he did a fairly extended segment on "Word Jazz"and its best-known practitioner, Ken Nordine. Hating both jazz and poetry, I nevertheless enjoyed Nordine's weird ruminations on life and other matters. Here's one:

...and here's a rather darker piece:


PS. I will write longer, more engaged blog posts again when this poor nation of ours produces some interesting news.