DOES GRAY MATTER?

"I'm not getting older, I'm getting busier." That should be the twenty-first century mantra.
Does busier make us age faster?
Maybe that's why so many people dye their hair;
they want to hide the gray, as if gray matters.
It's gray matter that matters, the substance of our overworked brains.
The more matter the better, as the gray blur of whirring remains.
Does busyness kill us or help us survive? make us dumber or smarter?
And where do we place the blame For all this Busyness?

Frankly, I want to go read a book and worry about it later. Anyway, if I'm still around in a couple of years, I'll figure that being busy helps me to survive.
So here's my busyness for the next few days:

Friday, APRIL 16 is Gallery Night: Eli has an opening at Soups On Gallery, 221 N. Water St, 6-10 PM. He's been painting a blue streak (not literally), and has a lot of his recent work posted on his home page.

Friday, APRIL 16: Adolph and I will be at Rosenblatt Gallery, 181 N Broadway, and the Guest Artist is TINGHONGINNIE LEE, reception 7-11 PM.

Thursday, APRIL 22: I'm performing my Water poem next to Lake Michigan's waters for the Sierra Club's Earth Day Celebration at the Coast Guard Pavillion, 5-7 PM.

Friday, APRIL 23, 7 PM, at the Urban Ecology Center, and Saturday, APRIL 24, 8 PM, at the Coffee House, it's the 23rd Annual Earth Poets & Musician Performances.
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010
7 PM Interactive Poetry and Music for the Whole Family
8 PM Earth Poets and Musicians with SPECIAL GUEST: SUSAN FIRER, Milwaukee Poet Laureate 2008–2010 Featured Performers: Jahmes Finlayson, Louisa Loveridge-Gallas, Holly Haebig, Jeff Poniewaz, Suzanne Rosenblatt, and Harvey Taylor
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER, 1500 E. Park Place
$5.00 Per Person, $10.00 Per Family, UEC Members Free

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2010, 8 P.M.
Earth Poets and Musicians with SPECIAL GUEST: SUSAN FIRER, Milwaukee Poet Laureate 2008–2010
Featured Performers: Jahmes Finlayson, Louisa Loveridge-Gallas, Holly Haebig, Jeff Poniewaz, Suzanne Rosenblatt, and Harvey Taylor
THE COFFEE HOUSE, 631 N. 19th Street (Just South of Wisconsin Ave)
Donation: $5.00, benefit for Walnut Way
 

Here's a portrait of Adolph by Eli: