T Paul Ste. Marie Passes Away

For those of you who know me best, I love poetry.  I love performance poetry, quiet poetry, words that fill in the blank spaces of an average page.  Usually, this kind of literature gives me great pleasure, but today, it reminds me of someone I admired.  I received this a little while ago:

Hi all:

I just wanted to let those of you who knew T Paul Ste Marie  -  he passed
away on  May 31.  He was a long time cast member of Tony n' Tina's Wedding
and has worked as an emcee, actor, spoken word artist, visual artist etc etc
etc thoughout Vancouver and the country.  Many of you will remember him as
the Making a Scene Rapporteur a few years back.

He was a wonderful character - his pompadour and  teddy boy style were as
famous as his gift with words, and his love of an audience and his loyalty
to friends.  He was a furious activist for many things..and  I amongst many
- loved him.  He will be dearly dearly missed.

*There is a memorial tonight, Monday June 4 at *
*8:00 pm at Café Deux Soliel on Commercial Drive.  *
*Please come out if you knew him*

There may also be a more formal memorial later this week.  Information and
details TBA.

He had been "ill" for about a year.  Last June, he blogged on his MySpace blog about what he endured.  It is too bad I didn't know him better.  Each time I ran into him in public (the last time was only a few weeks ago) I wished I had said more to him.  He was one fascinating cat.  I am sure he is off making beat poetry somewhere in the universe.  A loss to the Vancouver poetry scene and a whole lot of other scenes too.

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June 4th, 2007

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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