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Your support makes all the difference.In the third of an occasional series of poems, John Hegley takes the Edinburgh pulse
Voodoo Tattoo Chapter Two
She's pinned Jimi Hendrix to
the wall
So she doesn't feel totally
alone there.
They've now got an air
conditioning unit
in her pocket size venue,
unfortunately it
means she has to do
without any audience.
I said it was the same
as when I did a benefit show
and they only had one socket
and no adaptor:
You could have lights OR
sound.
She said it wasn't the same at
all.
Today she will be at the
Mound
leafletting
blank paper.
John Hegley is at Venue 15, Traverse, nightly to Sunday (0131-228 1404)
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