Margo Stutts Toombs - Performance Artist
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    • Storytelling on the Fringe 2020
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      • Song: C-PAP Tango
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      • What. This. Is. w/ jhon & Wayne Music
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        • Puerto Vallarta
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      • Bananas
      • Morning Meditation for Regular People
      • Bitch is Ready for Tea
      • Sidewalk Psychic
      • The Colon Show
      • Wine Tasting with Chocolate
      • Granny Goodnight
      • How I Got Screwed at the Dead Sea Cosmetics Kiosk
      • Hot Tub Doritos - a puppet show w/ chips & crackers
    • Artsy F*rtsy >
      • Mourning Unfurled
      • Body Language
      • Circles in the Wind
      • The Lover's Eye
      • Prisoner of Love
      • On the Town
      • Stormy-M v1
    • Promotional Videos >
      • donna e perkins-Gone Awry
      • Queer State - Promo -1
      • Sizzle for - Stormy: The Opera
      • Sparkle Noir (2015)
      • BLK Gurls ~n~ WHT Boiz
      • The Art of donna e perkins
      • the Art of Johnny Rojas
    • Works in Progress
    • The Weight of Illusions
  • Publications
    • Friendswood Ekphrastic Poetry Contest 2022 >
      • The Comic Bear
      • Gold
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      • An All-Night Conversation with You
      • The Care and Feeding of Your Penis Tree
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      • The Puzzle of Cats
      • Tommy
      • The Last Flight
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      • Love over 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems
      • Batwing
      • Opossum,Oh Please
      • 2011 Texas Poetry Calendar
    • Articles, Blogs & Interviews >
      • Voyage Houston - w/ article & link
      • 100 Creatives
      • Houston 100 Creatives (in PDF form)
      • Radio Interview-Fringe Festival 2011
      • Me Kissing You
      • The Houston Press - Fringe Festival 2012
      • Houston Press Art Attack - Houston Fringe Festival 2012 - PDF
      • Grant Writing Handbook
  • Photos, etc.
    • Kidney Monster
    • Caturday Haiku - 10-11-24
    • Kashmir
    • Photos >
      • Videos played at The Barns 6-21-14
      • Photo in the Houston Press
      • Photos-The Colon Show
      • Photos-What's Eating Martha
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An All-night Conversation with You

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Published in The Ekphrastic Review in response to The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali (Spain) 1931

https://www.ekphrastic.net/challenges?fbclid=IwAR0szGB2AXl256l3ywCf_ZQGXLmmAU5BKf7kVQaNpaZgBglKCJmWUpjaS5I​
An All-night Conversation with You 
After Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara
 
If I could turn back time - Cher
 
An all-night conversation with you 
is better than an afternoon chat with anyone else right now.
Maybe because we love absorbing esoteric movies
and dissecting them ad nauseum for days.
Maybe because we love attending theatres
and pretending to be theatre critics.
 
Maybe because I loved to have parties
And you loved being a guest in our home.
Maybe because we traveled so much.
And, now, the world reminds me of you.
 
I would rather see you than –
London, Paris, Kashmir, Machu Pichu or Disneyland
on either coast.
 
I imagine us a couple of old pillows
hanging out on the sofa
Stuffing our faces with popcorn and wine.
 
If we invited your wife, could you get a hall pass
for one more movie
one more conversation?
 
I have so much to tell you.