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Writing and Poetry - Like Comedy and Tragedy - Ha. Ha.

 Comedy & Tragedy 

 The Art of Poetry and Comedy Live 

Writing and Poetry Routine 2020 

EXCERPTS FROM THE VOGUE ARTICLE:

MURPHY'S LAW AND WHAT ELSE COULD GO WRONG? 

Scheduled to be Published in January of 2021 (pending results of the Editor's COVID-19 test)

    Lola Nation's phenomenal page turner is available online at the following stores Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Facebook and as well as her website insult-to-injury.com.   The first 100 copies are signed by her and include our exclusive interview with color photo.   

    "Patron Saint of What Else Could Go Wrong?" (also known as Saint Dammit Laura, depicted as seen in with a halo of light around her as a tear is shown on one cheek slightly turned upward, milk spilled on the floor beneath her hand arched to show the spillage on the floor and hand on her chest, she holds her drink, accentuated by a cigarette burning between her fingers seeking as if she is thinking "For the Love of God, what else can go wrong?”  Behind her it appears like an apocalypse is headed her direction as if painted by Michel Angelo himself) is published by FuckIt Press and in limited edition hard copies to be distributed in February at your local bookstore with over one hundred insightful pages covering the comedy and tragedy in topics like autism, false lashes, advice for young women who aren't yet married, family loss - all of which are engaging, sometimes inappropriately hilarious and touch on subjects generally difficult to vocalize, let alone find humor in.

    The final print of the magazine will have a fine curated selection of Lola Nation reciting her Poetry in Lingerie, as a stout activist in Literacy Awareness, Lola has selflessly promoted poetry through such means as "poetry is the lingerie of our souls..." and while she hides little for mystery, she bares all it all in this expose for the publicity of her book and to remind the men, women, and otherwise challenged population to READ.  


WRITE THE FUTURE #WTF PODCAST WITH LOLA NATION 

December 7,  2020

HOST 

Renowned Poet and Hilarious Comedian indulges Write the Future Podcast in her New York Loft on how she took her poetry and made it so funny, she became America's favorite Comedian when it comes down to unraveling the mystery of spoken word and how to not only get an audience engage in reading her work and laughing with her as well as at her!"

NARRATOR SIDEBAR:

So, I am giving you the full spectrum of what I think my writing career would go like if we mixed it into a genre of humor and poetry.  We'd start off with how i got my shot at the stage.

Imagine me, in a bathtub, all Gyspy Rose doing an interview for some whatever there is like playboy on air.  

HOST

"So,  Lola, how did you figure out how to merge these two amazing components of life - the art of poetry to humor and beyond..."

GUEST

"Well, one day I was in Hollywood and the Scientologists were ignoring me, right?"  

NARRATOR SIDEBAR:

I pull out a cigarette from my pearl enameled case and the photographer drops his camera to light it and get a shot of my bare chest almost out of the bubbles to nipples, I exhale.  

GUEST CONTINUES

"And, I walked into some Jew's production company and he said, to go ahead and take a seat on this really nice davenport."  

(The young and handsome journalist interviewing me moves his collar to the side with one finger.) 

"Harvey said, 'go a head kid show me your stuff...' and so I did!  Tonight I'm headlining at the Live Stock and Laughter and I really hope that we have a good turn out, LGBTQ friendly!  Get it, turn out?

(His photographer snaps a shot of me, champagne in hand, cigarette in the other.)

NARRATOR SIDEBAR:

Anyway 

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LOLA NATION WRITING - THE COMEDY ACT

Poetry is for Lovebirds and Headcases

 I wholeheartedly admit that I am not a great poet.  But it was Bukowski who said something like whenever he started to feel bad about his writing, he read other writers - I have no reason not to write poetry based on that statement.

The problem with being a writer is that you are your own chronological historographer and you follow yourself around, mentally detailing the scene in which you first felt guilt, lost your virginity, breakdown the character flaws in the person speaking to you, remember that your mother is to blame and the childhood memory that this very PTSD moment is attached to - what I mean is, we're constantly narrating our lives.

I don't particularly care for my own voice - I think my life owuld be excellently narrated by Waylon Jennings or maybe the guy from Dateline who is too eagerly enthralled with the murder stories he tells and there are some others depending on the scene I am narrating in my head.

 I started writing this because I am getting very forgetful and think one day I'll find myself singing old Broadway songs on an out of tune piano played by the orderly and I'll be there like a dumbass singing along with the other nuisance to the fanily or society patients in the mental ward of KU because there was nowhere else to put an old dementia lady like me.  But, until then, I'm trying to write more in the moment so I don't forget what it is i forgot I was writing about.

 


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