Get Teased.

Find out what the Nightshade Lexicon Performance at this week's Houston Fringe Festival will look like by checking out this teaser.

The Nightshade Lexicon Performance combines poetry, techno, photography and dance into a live show on stage at Super Happy Fun Land (3801 Polk St, Houston, TX 77003) on: 

Thursday, September 24th at 6 PM 

and on 

Friday, September 25th at 7:30 PM.

The five poems in the live performance are a small selection from my subliminally-best-selling e-book of poetry, 

The Nightshade Lexicon: A complete book of worthless poetry for the common hominid. (Available for $0.99 on Amazon).

Bitter over election politics already?

Take a dive off the deep end and try a good dark dance fix: https://soundcloud.com/lacey-schmidt/election-yearmp3

Is Poetry Dead?

I think not!  What about you?

Here is the title poem from my poetry collection, "The Nightshade Lexicon" in honor of #WorldPoetryDay

Or Listen in to the technopoetry version if you prefer at: https://soundcloud.com/lacey-schmidt/nightshadelexicon-poetry-is-deadmp3 

"Poetry is dead,"

He said,

"And you scribblers of rhymes

Are the modern day equivalents of Dr. Frankenstein,

Cobbling together hackneyed parts of palsied phrases

Hoping to electrify some heart."

How could this be?

I thought.

Everyone knows GOD is dead,

Nietzsche told us so,

But poetry?

A listing land of zombie corpses?

Poetry has whispered mixers and elixers

To necromancers and angels alike for millennium…

Dressed ancient Ute chants to the nines

And peeled naked Tupac Shakur and Beastie Boy dimes.

"Poetry is dead and you’re wasting time with ghosts on-line,"

He insisted,

As I shaped more sharpie ghouls on a napkin

And the back of some grocery store receipt.

Maybe poetry chirps via smart-phone at 180 characters per minute

Like Herman Munster’s heartbeat,

“IT LIVES!”

I quipped.

And I’ll continue to deal in my dead lexicon,

A dark addicted wordslinger,

Happy towering with the nightshades.

Some poetic nightshades in a dead lexicon...

Need a perky upbeat tune to put you into the summer groove?

Give this a listen: https://soundcloud.com/lacey-schmidt/insectoniamp3 and get ready to twitch!

Anyone with a deeper, male voice want to sing the audio for me in the redo?

Give a listen on soundcloud and let me know:

https://soundcloud.com/lacey-schmidt/what-words-willmp3

Free reading...

Kindle unlimited members can now read The Nightshade Lexicon for free:
http://www.amazon.com/Nightshade-Lexicon-complete-worthless-hominid-ebook/dp/B008GAS7VK/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Just in time for spring

another techno poetry mix from "The Nightshade Lexicon."  Please give a listen at: https://soundcloud.com/lacey-schmidt/floridmp3 and let the scathing commentaries begin.

When Hardcore Techno emerges

Let it go.  Give my newest mix a listen over on soundcloud and I hope you dance!
https://soundcloud.com/lacey-schmidt/pc-my-dance-mastermp3