because i went to a super awesome groovy slam with a super awesome groovy after party and anyway i still managed to write two poems at the slam beforehand the first of which i used in the first round and totally managed to advance all the way to a win only using stuff from april which was extra super awesome groovy because it was the last one of this scene's slam until theydono when because they're gonna try to rework the running of it and they're gonna see how it turns out anyway the first one was this one:
statement of purpose:
the fact of the matter is simply this:
i have got to stop fighting my destiny.
i've been groomed for service since birth
my hostess mother continuously creating events
dinners, parties, dinner parties,
this serving dish with that utensil,
the theme, the wine, the gifts
through to volunteering - the animal shelter,
the pet therapy with people in rehab,
the teaching Spanish to homeless kids,
the activism the feminism the antiracism
the working in a job whose title is literally
SERVER
it's ridiculous it took me this long to commit
so okay sign me up, here i am, committing
supplicating - accept me to your program
this service is my purpose
i'm proposing we partner - take me, teach me, mold me to the cause
but first you're demanding i state mu purpose.
so here it is:
i am here to be a queer woman who through those lenses
sees farther, sees more, sees
my whiteness, my able body, my cis gender
and privilege is a fucking real thing, y'all.
i am here to intersect, i am here to connect,
i am here to learn and listen and respect
i am here to change, create, within and without
i am doing this because the more i hear about the military's response to sexual assault
the more i need to Go Fix That
i am here to doubt the status quo, to dream about where we can go together, i am here to be
together
my purpose is service my purpose
is to do what my father taught me when young
to return things better than they were lent to me
and this world is not mine
and someday, sooner than i'd like
i'ma have to return it
the other one was a haiku and i am not ashamed of that now i am caught up until today when i need to scribble out another at some point also i am very impressed with all the typos i've managed to correct thus far i am a little sauced:
you have to choose your battles, she said
okay, said i
i choose them all.
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