…is the number of poems that Eric Plattner & I wrote while doing a special pop-up edition of Poems While You Wait at the Art Institute of Chicago in conjunction with their Go Show…

….for such people as these… 

…& these…

Thanks to Michael Green and the Art Institute for inviting us to spend a lunch hour making ekphrastic poems, and to all the people who listened to us read, watched us type, and requested pieces on the work in the galleries, and on speed and modernity generally!