Hey Money Money Money on my head Hey, money, money, Money on my brain. Ponce DeLeon, Where's the man with the money? The man on the ocean The man in the woods Where's the money Where's the matter Hey, money, where're you going Need more.
A Venue of Love One woman on a venue of love. One woman as manna from heaven. One woman dancing on a venue of love. Stepping with Roberta on the pathway. Laying a pathway for me On her venue of love One woman gave me a chance One woman with her folk One woman steps on a venue of love Stepping with Lania on my right, Roberta on my left Only one woman matters.	Bolivian Rainbow Click on rainbow for poem.

My main activity this year, other than my own workshops, was the songwriting workshop of Kiya Heartwood and Miriam Davidson, known as the Wishing Chair, shown in the top left. We ran through a set of exercises to help us write songs. In so doing, I wrote three poems, a new record for me at SUUSI. Two of them, "Hey Money Money" and "A Venue of Love" can be seen above. Both of them were the result of an exercise in which I heard something in a foreign language that I have not heard before, and I tried to write down what it said. I tended to write down what English words resemble the sounds of the foreign tongue; this is where "money" and "venue" come from. What I find intriguing is the appearance of two women in "A Venue of Love" even though it says that only one woman matters, and the appearance of Ponce DeLeon in the money song. What does he have to do with money? Maybe by opening the New World to Europeans, forming the framework from with the USA was constructed.

I wrote another poem, one suggested by the Chairs, namely Bolivian Rainbow. This is an outreach or beyond poem, in which I try to envision experience beyond ordinary human experience, in this case, with colors. Clicking on the rainbow yields the poem, which is too long for this page. First the writer sees colors all different, then he observes a rainbow with colors that he has never seen before. It reminds me of the theory of color vision, and of trichromacy.

In the rest of the workshop, we did other exercises to help us write poems, and she and some others sang some songs for us. This is one of the better workshops I have attended at SUUSI.