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gyzymfjldsfhdjskfhs OKAY RIGHT SO HERE IS A THING. What happened, right, is that a couple people were like, hey, that poem, about the anxiety, it would be good! As spoken word! And then ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lovelyhera ACTUALLY RECORDED IT SLAM-POETRY STYLE and oh fuck it is so good you guys and I am just bowled over, constantly amazed by how awesome everyone is all the time and how lucky I am and this and you guys and ♥!
And then. I. Er. Well, I've always wanted to try the slam poetry thing but I never have for a bunch of reasons, MOSTLY ANXIETY, and I thought I would try it. And so I did, on my phone, in a voicepost like an asshole because I don't actually understand how to use my computer or the internet really, and I totally mess up in it andlovelyhera's is muuuuuuch better BUT. I am posting it, right, because I was thinking about how awesome it would be if everyone gave spoken word a go, if we used the inspiration meme (which, HI, GUYS, YOU ARE INSPIRING FOR FILLING THAT UP WITH SO MUCH JOY) to find words we wanted to speak and say and bring to life.
SO. Here is a thing that I did that I am fucking nervous about, and if you guys want to be brave little toasters and try something you're nervous about, DO EET. Pick a poem, pick any poem, one of yours or someone else's or a GROCERY LIST or whatever, I AM EASY, and have a go, and I will be here, cheering you on.
NOW I AM GOING TO GO WATCH 30 ROCK AND/OR WRITE AN INSOMNIA FICLET ABOUT HOW DANNY GETS COMFORTABLE LIKE A CAT SO I DON'T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT I DID THIS ANYMORE. Thank you guys for being awesome always ♥
lovelyhera ACTUALLY RECORDED IT SLAM-POETRY STYLE and oh fuck it is so good you guys and I am just bowled over, constantly amazed by how awesome everyone is all the time and how lucky I am and this and you guys and ♥!And then. I. Er. Well, I've always wanted to try the slam poetry thing but I never have for a bunch of reasons, MOSTLY ANXIETY, and I thought I would try it. And so I did, on my phone, in a voicepost like an asshole because I don't actually understand how to use my computer or the internet really, and I totally mess up in it and
lovelyhera's is muuuuuuch better BUT. I am posting it, right, because I was thinking about how awesome it would be if everyone gave spoken word a go, if we used the inspiration meme (which, HI, GUYS, YOU ARE INSPIRING FOR FILLING THAT UP WITH SO MUCH JOY) to find words we wanted to speak and say and bring to life. SO. Here is a thing that I did that I am fucking nervous about, and if you guys want to be brave little toasters and try something you're nervous about, DO EET. Pick a poem, pick any poem, one of yours or someone else's or a GROCERY LIST or whatever, I AM EASY, and have a go, and I will be here, cheering you on.
NOW I AM GOING TO GO WATCH 30 ROCK AND/OR WRITE AN INSOMNIA FICLET ABOUT HOW DANNY GETS COMFORTABLE LIKE A CAT SO I DON'T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT I DID THIS ANYMORE. Thank you guys for being awesome always ♥
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Date: 2011-03-27 06:55 am (UTC)I kind of wrote a bit (I don't know if you'd call it poetry) in the inspiration meme itself last night? And then I expanded upon it today? And then I filmed myself reading it?
The video quality is atrocious. And idk what's going on with my accent - since I'm intentionally speaking slowly and clearly you can barely hear the Jersey, but I stumble over it sometimes. But anyway.
You know what, I'm going to give it to you written because even I can't understand a few of the words:
Most poetry is incomprehensible to me. As I study the art of creative writing, as I learn to be liberal, I daily see and feel the clash between poetry and fiction, the strange animosity of that divide, and then further to watch some discover they prefer nonfiction. I've spiraled into that last category and I often feel out of my depth, being so literal in a world of invention.
Sometimes, the fiction writers make fun of the poets, because as stupid and pointless and poor as our futures are going to be, they've got even less going for them. You know, dumb prejudices that mostly boil down to jealousy. We wish we could comprehend what the poets are saying, spin words like they do. Instead we try to make people sound like people, and correct our syntax, and place commas in the right spot. And nonfiction, it's true, it's just the truth made to sound pretty. It's stuffing memory with metaphor.
I wish I could wax poetic. I wish I could comprehend anything less than direct. But it’s an enigma I can’t unravel. Even with meter and rhyme I often find that I cannot find what’s hidden between the words. My skill lies in the phrases themselves, in pairing nouns and verbs and sparse adjectives to make you see what I have seen, clear as day. I can’t see the trees for the forest.
And sometimes it makes me feel like I am not one of us.
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Date: 2011-03-27 07:44 am (UTC)Also your glasses and hair are the very most cutest ever.
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Date: 2011-03-27 07:14 am (UTC)i used to have some recordings on my computer of me doing dialogue from dark knight and inglourious basterds... idk where it ended up, though. my impressions sound lame when reduced to audio files =/
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Date: 2011-03-27 06:11 pm (UTC)Anyways, I figured IF YOU DID IT I COULD. I wanted to be all supportive and shit.
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Date: 2011-03-27 07:37 am (UTC)absolutely brill ♥
i like your reading a lot.
Date: 2011-03-27 09:09 am (UTC)download 8 minutes of gyzym, jack gilbert, ee cummings, etc! (http://www.mediafire.com/?65ba5knckbrp1kb)
(it is a wav.)
Re: i like your reading a lot.
Date: 2011-03-27 05:12 pm (UTC)Re: i like your reading a lot.
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Date: 2011-03-27 02:32 pm (UTC)This is something that's so hard to do, even if you're not an anxious person, but you did it, and you did it so amazingly, and you didn't mess it up at all, you made the poem come alive.
I will never be able to do this. Because I cannot recite poetry and I'm terrified to try. But you are so amazing for doing it and posting it, even though you were anxious about it. You are amaze. ♥
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Date: 2011-03-27 06:41 pm (UTC)I might return with a French poem later?
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Date: 2011-03-27 06:50 pm (UTC)I am unfit to operate the internet today.
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Date: 2011-03-27 10:27 pm (UTC)So, I give up. YOU WIN. HERE IT IS:
loceheri.livejournal.com/data/phonepost/446.mp3 (http://loceheri.livejournal.com/data/phonepost/446.mp3)
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Date: 2011-03-27 11:28 pm (UTC)Also this:
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Date: 2011-03-28 03:43 am (UTC)http://www.box.net/shared/xjyemfcmto this one is called strawberries/still
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