Rage Almighty Live at Main Street Players

By Button Poetry

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a few quick announcements we got only
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four ladies and gentlemen give it up for
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poetry and spoken word right now were
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over an hour
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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so Im from Boston but um but uh I live
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in Texas Dallas Texas to be exact I want
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to fight through this Foshee I want to
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give you all a dozen reasons why I hate
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apples
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um one apples are the assholes fruit
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community like fruit being I mean of
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like pears meaning emo fruit pieces of
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the radical fruit bananas is a gangbang
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of fruit strawberries are the sexy fruit
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grapes are the alcoholics but apples
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though apples those be the most American
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is fruit like like the template for the
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ultimate good like like America like
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apples are supposed to be the most
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American is fruit ever but we invest
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window apples though to be told we
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entrust Apple sins to Genesis serpent
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Eve 3 and Apple is the ampersand growing
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between good and evil a broken scale
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starting from each stem this is the prom
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king standing at the podium of Adams
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throat but let society tell it were
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supposed to take an apple for being an
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apple we dont trust those apples though
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um for Johnny Appleseed or the facebook
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says we shouldnt judge all police
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officers because of a couple bad apples
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5 when a bad apple when a rotten apple
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is placed amongst a bowl or batch or
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precinct or squad car of good ones it
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releases the ripening agent that pushes
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all the other apples around it to
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eventually rot 6 quiet apples are just
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as guilty as the racist ones they
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welcome to the cane
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let it kill and spread fear one last
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reading of something healthy 7 I
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bad-apple in my refrigerator whoops I
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didnt know whether throw it away Ill
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put it on paid administrative leave
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eight I dont care what color the Apple
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is they were all trained to be white on
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the inside
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nine this is theres a bounty on my skin
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this is my test is what a shot down a
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penny but if I go to jail my bail would
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be a Meek Mill ten the kids at my school
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say there are too many apples there they
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dont feel safe its like theyre
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staring down the barrel of the camera
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phone giving them the shoots 11 an apple
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a day keeps the doctor away 12 but not
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the mortician 12 Snow White had an apple
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fell asleep and a man came to save her
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12 Sandra bland had Apple and fell
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asleep 12 stopped me for driving while
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breathing in the wrong neighborhood I
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was terrified but I didnt say a word he
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came to my window and said whats wrong
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I got a football player kneeling in your
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throat 12 I was walking down a suburban
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neighborhood privilege trees growing
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from every yard blue lights Madisons
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spotting from every stem and I couldnt
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help but think about The Wizard of Oz
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you know the scene where the trees
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pulled apples up the hair and through it
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the people that was trying to get home
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throughout the girl I was trying to
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study is doing the people no Im just
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having a barbecue do have the people
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though actually hungry 12 Im not saying
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there are no good apples Im saying
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I just might die before 5 1 12 apples
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tastes like gunpowder but I guess thats
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what makes your American Pie taste so
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damn sleep hey Im doing something all
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right
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[Applause]
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thank you um so I my name is Rings
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Almighty I hope Im pronouncing that
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right
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so poems followed my face and theyll
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theyre gonna hit your ear balls
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consensually you know wed have a good
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time thing so when I say feeling good
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yall say feeling great feeling good
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good love my hand okay um Im looking at
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my phone cause Im a bad memory so
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theyre there so this poem was a written
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after John OBrien who wrote a book
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called leaving Las Vegas is a wonderful
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book and a pretty shitty movie with
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Nicolas Cage oh oh
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so its called drunken City I drink
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because I want to leave Las Vegas I
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drink cuz all of my friends are so
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fucking boring I only drink on days that
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begin with tea Tuesday Thursday today
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and tomorrow
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lizard last time I got drunk I was
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listening to do drink CD and I ended up
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texting like five of my ex-girlfriends I
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wish my arms long enough to help you
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forever drinking and drinking just as
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dangerous as drinking and driving I
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drink because I want to leave Las Vegas
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I drink because I am a walking panic
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attack wrapped in false confidence and
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fancy words and even though Im tired of
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being a struggling poet drowning in his
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own anxiety I drink to lubricate my
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anxiety I drink because alcohol is way
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cheaper than therapy so I drink because
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the world has yet to stop for my
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depression I drink light I drink dark I
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drink my kidneys into an eclipse until
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my body is half moonshine and half mommy
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issues
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so Im nothing but a confused son born
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to a woman who said I love you like a
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fucking apology I drink because Im
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trying to see her my father in the
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mirror Im tired of seeing his face
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cloning in a glass of a whiskey wish Im
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a reflection of my shadow was switched
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places I drink cuz I wanna leave Las
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Vegas I drink the choke I drink the
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smile I drink this everyone expects me
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to make them laugh therefore I drink to
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lie I drink this my life theres one big
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performance and everybodys watching
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watch me get drunk and all
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sloppy choose comporting at my mouth on
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the days that my bones for like bars to
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a prison hold it in all the things i
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cant let go of i trick the throw up
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everything i keep bottled inside of me i
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jenkins inside of me i have a compass
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full of heart and I always fall in love
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with women who are a Bermuda Triangle
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smiles I drink because Im lost I drink
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so scared I think some to sober to a
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midnight drink to drown all of my
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problems but they always end up floating
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to the top of my mind and I know this is
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not how baptisms are done I cant dump
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my demons in a bottle and wash away my
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sins
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I cant keep trading to bartender spirit
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for spirit because one day my burdens
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gonna break the barstool one day my
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friend
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Ill get tired of babysitting my broken
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and Ill leave Las Vegas and a pale
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white Mustang and Im shrunk full of my
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parents bad Avex I drink cuz Im not
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afraid to break Im just afraid that I
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wont rebuild myself a better person in
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the morning so when its all said and
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done I drink because the pression
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requires way more maintenance than
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happiness
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all right when I say okay you say all
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right okay okay okay all right you say
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okay all right all right okay all right
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okay great so this is a like this
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audience its a very very intimate I
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really like I want to get intimate with
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all of you so sorry Im gonna mean like
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that I mean like get to know everybody
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guys picked your mind out the gutter
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first of all okay
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geez Louise okay so listen um on the
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count of three I want everybody to say
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your name one two three
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some people didnt say sorry I want to
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get to know everybody okay so on the
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count of three please say your name one
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two three
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were all gonna be cousins by the end of
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the set gonna be great right this is
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Ross and then Chandler Rachel and other
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ones so theres a holiday coming about
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Valentines Day coming up whos in love
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in the building me my love all right
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good um anybody um this
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thank you take it I aint buy um anyway
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people love anybody just um just you
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know anybodys in love with themselves
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you love yourself yeah love with their
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money greedy yeah okay I understand that
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so anything alright so um so this is a
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foot of lovers in the house lovers make
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some noise alright so if dreams are
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raindrops Id shake storm clouds until
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they turn the snowflakes rain necks
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magic spells I subscribe to all
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superstitions I gather every umbrella I
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didnt get my hands on I turn upside
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down and make them wishing well and
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deliver each one to your doorstep I
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thought of spare change I could find
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this the exact moment when I realized I
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am insanely in love with you cuz I want
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your dreams to come true just as much as
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I want minds to play hide and go get it
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with tomorrow unless your future finds
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you and if failure would have a factor
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in this equation you know its cool you
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take shelter make a game plan but Im
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gonna stand outside and wait for the
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next storm to come and when youre ready
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we a cup I hang up together creates your
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story our story my story and his story
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lets all fall stories fall down the
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drain because theyre Bulows before it
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soaks into the ground I want you to look
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down and smile and see that your beauty
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at your worst is your beauty at your
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best beauty-full flaw lesson if I could
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borrow your smile fuck a body hell
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smile at save it and use it what I cant
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find my and when you cant find you
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going or feeling confident in your path
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absorb the biggest umbrella bath with a
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sponge in my hand ready to get the
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places that you cant reach which means
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I got your back and in a pool full of
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dreams greatness surrounds you now
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behind you Im beside you or wherever
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you want me to be Im just making sure
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that you stay wet Im just making sure
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that you see you that you havent seen
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yet who all youth I see you know even
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tell you was
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listen the singing drips that can make
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ripples in a puddle on a saying Jets
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they can make waves in the ocean which
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means even a smallest amount of faith go
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such a long way thats why I believed I
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want to see you go so far that I cant
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see you no more so far that your dreams
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and the horizon are the same length
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because baby heaven has no roof and I
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never want to see you dry as long as
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dreams arrange drops to the dreams or
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raindrops that maybe you and I could
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hold hands and slow dance in the middle
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of a hurricane
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until the gust of wind blows us away but
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I think the way is weak acting like it
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is because you give me heart I give you
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courage together we make brain storms
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and form of raindrops in a form of
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dreams
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Im tired of writing you love poems Im
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ready to live you a love poem I want to
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remember the day you walk the tightrope
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of friendship felt one accident and
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landed on purpose we dont call each
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other by name
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what if our names will change Im not so
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man Im not so friend Im in forever its
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insomnia future you just call me
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so I wrote that for somebody no she died
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shes been to me outside no but I
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mentioned it time and the time goes real
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I ruined like I would ever like I do a
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poem and Ill say something Ill shit
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after it its like everybody that was
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like nope if you buck so so one more
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time all people loved make some noise
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thing yeah okay theres more people than
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that was the footing for so apparently
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that poem made some people fall in love
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its Im really proud of myself
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yall look good too so uh all single
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people say yeah hey thats a hearty yeah
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all right um so I have a lot of topics
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on my poetry my poetry beliefs fans all
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over I talk about mental illness to talk
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about um a lot about love and police
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brutality a lot things wrong in the
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world one thing I always want to talk
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about because its very dangerous and I
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want to be an advocate for it because uh
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we dont need to risk our lives like
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this dating a poet a serious thing if
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you do if you do it then this happens as
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you could tell from the smile on my face
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Im handling out break up really well I
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havent stalked you on Twitter or
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Facebook I mean technically you blocked
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me from them but still I havent um
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havent written about you turn you to a
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metaphor or a simile our relationship as
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a poem you stopped writing wait
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I did but still all right I never called
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you a liar after you kissed me
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and I tasted another mans name in your
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mouth no no no I never called you a liar
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after you told me we could still be
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friends then change the Netflix password
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what is that
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Im still watching orange is the new
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black but Im still smiling because when
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I stop smiling I realized Im never
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gonna fall out of love with you
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I cut myself and half to be more of a
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man for you and that still wasnt enough
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loving you is a suicide Im still
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failing at but Im handling it well
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there was a dim streetlight that
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flickered at a naked parking lot under
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the honesty of midnight and the
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deception of storm clouds two drunken
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tongues
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argued ourselves sober as irony made the
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air so thin and strategy made breathing
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so bitter
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we came to ironic and tragic conclusion
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that being in love isnt a good enough
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reason for two people to be together I
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we had sex in his parking lot like a
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bunch of dogs right what a Maximus was
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too fragile frightened abyssion so I
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loved so hard
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of something so soft exhibitionist but
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some things have better see the public
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places tragedy so here we go irony we
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speak to each other so aggressively but
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communicate like pallbearers tragedy
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whose we laugh like opening caskets and
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smiling slit throats irony horror story
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love is afraid of a happy ending tragedy
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every argument them because the
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apocalypse now irony that is no tomorrow
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tragedy we knew this shit yesterday
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irony your heartbeats Antigone tragedy I
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cant be on Sophocles
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if I could rewrite this I would but I
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cant so I hear and this concrete
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Cemetery approach gonna ask the life of
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our relationship and every scary movie
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Ive ever seen tortured spirits dont
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cross over so lets walk away before we
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end up haunting each other for the rest
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of our lives lets stop being The
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Walking Dead and confirm
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the x-files mouths numb from yelling
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fingers cracked from pointing
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uncomfortable silence its the sound of
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the glass house breaking and it ended
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with the kiss we left him smile and a
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mutual understanding that this this has
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the torn apart it put together so many
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times the lines dont match up eyes
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dont match dont sink we sunk to the
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lowest level of resentment but truthful
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lips irony you should never let a fool
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kiss you and never let a kiss fool you
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tragedies Ill be kissing women with
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thirty pieces of silver but its my
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tongue after I leave you irony this is
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the most successful liars are the most
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eyes people youll ever meet tragedies
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the most successful liars are the most
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honest people youll ever meet
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irony were only honest with each other
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through when it comes to this honesty
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tragedy peace with you was worth the
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water and Ive given you pieces of me
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that Ive never given myself they say in
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order to rebuild you must first destroy
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so maybe if we broke down we wouldnt be
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breaking up under the shivering
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streetlight in this naked parking lot hi
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I miss now at the end of this
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relationship realizing that I am going
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to be in love with you for the rest of
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my life
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tragedy youre not gonna be around to
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know it thank you
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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thats a filigree spilling it all from
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Boston but my dad my dad has muscles
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he carries mountains being the skin jobs
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in the gym like like every day and picks
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me up from school and who yellow t-shirt
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him and the buses could be playing my
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god is stronger than your dad so I
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youre down left and my guys stagger
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stuff so my dad say my dad said most of
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my friends dads dont have that so my
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dad had a dad that was just like his
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Straub and my dad could beat up like
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everybody like Superman and The
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Incredible Hulk and the x-men and Power
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Rangers and mr. T and Wonder Woman and
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mommy and in Green Lantern daddy showed
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us how strong he is all the time one
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time he ripped the Bible with his bare
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hands a show us what God looks like does
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mommy she forgets what God looks like so
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daddy who hosts Moses in his fist when
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she pricks his commandments see mommy
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might be used to smile with a mouth full
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of tablets when daddy was all golden
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statue of good intentions but then she
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became a false witness to his blessing
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no she does she she host image of the
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man he used to be daddy doesnt like
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that he sees another prophet between the
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blinks sure she breaks his Commandments
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daddy that it lists his songs and stops
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the gospel out of her eyes so shell
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never see another him
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again five dollars and mirrors my daddy
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this one motherfucking house cleaning my
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bees knees are so dirty
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Bobbys mouth is so messy Bobby get up
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get up stop crying a little bit see
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mommy his daddys Rock and daddy strikes
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a stone when hes thirsty my daddy says
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he loves mommy so much go break her legs
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to keep her from leaving him and Danny
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says mommy says this will all all pass
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over but theres so much blood my daddy
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is a lawgiver my daddy is a prophet my
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daddy is a God and sometimes I dont
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want to be like my dad
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dont tell him I said that
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so so then I says that one day I grow up
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to be just like him
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right now his shoes are too big for my
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fist daddy says that one day well one
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day Ill meet a girl whose tears taste
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like milk and honey just like this like
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mom means her tears taste like milk and
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honey and my name should taste like a
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prayer in her mouth because daddy says
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that girls should talk to boys like
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prayers on their knees so so my family
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is the chosen people mommy is a red sea
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my daddy is a God and a lawgiver and a
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prophet daddy
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splits mommy open like Moses daddy
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and I I i am an apple that doesnt want
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to fall too close to the burning bush
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[Applause]
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so my family has a very romantic
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relationship with suicide
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shes a silent siren singing lithium to
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the rhythm of my bleeding heart and
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begging me to dance with her shes
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always dancing so for me suicide has
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always been the girl next door that
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comes to my bedroom at night when its
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dark when all my light bulbs of burnt
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out and I and burnt out trapped in the
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labyrinth of my own anxiety trying to
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find new ways to love myself looking for
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new ways to love myself I look at my
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closet and its found my ex-girlfriends
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headscarf I looked about wallet I dont
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know why and shit going on in there you
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know I looked under my mattress and then
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Im smelling all of my favorite bad
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decisions and it took me to pick the
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scabs off of my trust
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follow my roadmap scars and then she was
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sitting on the hike in between give and
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up with a jar full of fireflies showing
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me the light to the end of my manic
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suiciders thoughtful I love the way she
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massages the knives in my back I love
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the way she kisses me swallows my
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indecision hole and picks up teeth with
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my rib cage suicide asleep I love the
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way she plays my hair like a taut
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strings when I feel like an opportune me
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and one day she told me that I was born
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a two-way mirror I see people when they
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only see themselves Im always falling
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when I like women play jingle with my
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emotions when I trip over my own shadow
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my legs get tired of carrying my torso
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like a pallbearer I fall and suicide
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suicide she catches me when Im at my
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lowest point that I almost cut my wrist
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on a broken promise my rock bottom is
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paper-thin suicide she holds me like a
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safety net turns my self-loathing into
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linoleum floor and begs me to dance with
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I sucked the vicodin off the lips one
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day her mouth tasted like my mothers
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favorite whiskey cup she had my cousins
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bathwater in her hair my ops perfume on
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her neck and she smiled at me with my
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uncles eyes my family has always had a
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romantic relationship of suicide
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shes a silent siren seeing lithiums of
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the rhythm of my bleeding heart and
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begging me to dance with her shes
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always dancing thank God for my two left
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feet all right so Im gonna do two more
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poems and of this poem Badu was um its
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three title says next poem one of the
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bees of when its getting tacky under
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your tongue breaks in half two is when
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your unseasoned chicken comes home to
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roost and the third title is so you got
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fired from your job because you said
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something racist on Facebook this poem
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is dedicated to count so you got fired
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from each aisle because it says
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something racist on Facebook oh do you
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feel oppressed how oppressed do you feel
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you feel happy holidays on Starbucks cup
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a press or my city aint got clean
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drinking water oppressed my livelihood
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depends on my ability to speak silent
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fluently you Ive had the privilege to
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speak without fear or speak like that
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time you said the things and since I
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meant really didnt mean if everyone
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heard you say it now youre unemployed
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smh is too bad you never had a dick be
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your stomach defines a receding tongue
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you never have a received your tongue
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every time I see a police badge I digest
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my throat with two white dudes and a
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pickup truck call me a monkey I
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swallowed my voice you dont know how it
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feels to not feel safe standing inside
27:09
your own mouth and I know what youre
27:11
thinking this must be how two slaves
27:13
felt silvertone cold around your neck
27:16
choking on your own backbone
27:18
I need a text
27:19
racist Carol youre the not to sound
27:21
racist but doc doc doc type braces Carol
27:24
all your smiling races were just enough
27:26
bigotry to keep your teeth white now if
27:28
you got a pick the bigotry out your
27:30
white teeth and call it an apology but
27:32
thats not gonna get your job back Carol
27:34
see you were born with an opinion that
27:37
stays trying to gentrify my throat but
27:40
Im not gonna put a Trader Joes on my
27:41
voice box you Carol I know people who
27:43
died were talking about the wrong side
27:45
of their mouth if people who killed and
27:47
gotten away with it and you thought this
27:49
would be a Paula Deen recipe for a bad
27:51
day before were you wrong
27:53
Carol the problem is you never know how
27:55
to save space
27:56
you never had a praise in a burning
27:58
church about Gunsmoke choose your
28:00
prayers on the sky you know nothing of
28:01
burning kingdoms a charred havens were
28:03
having the ground you trusted came in on
28:06
you history lesson stemming from the
28:08
back of your throat is the middle
28:09
passage youre used to floating Im used
28:11
to drowning history lesson johnny has
28:13
taught me how to swallow my tongue
28:14
Emmett Till has taught me how to swallow
28:16
my tongue history lessons has taught me
28:18
how to swallow my tongue you never
28:20
learned how to swallow your tongue Carol
28:22
poor Carol I dont want to see poor
28:24
Carol yeah the trick is poison you bored
28:26
Carol hey you wanna protest Carol a
28:28
picket sign Carol it dont work like
28:29
that Carol your Christmas wish to add a
28:31
job make sure prove its probably got
28:33
you in the first place but somewhere in
28:34
America theres a Confederate flag at
28:37
half-mast mourning the loss of your job
28:39
but not in this poem Carol hell hath no
28:42
fury like a millennial whos with a
28:43
screenshot the skeleton key and your
28:45
tongue broke in half yall see the
28:47
chicken has come home to roost you got
28:49
fired from a job because it said
28:50
something racist on Facebook but look on
28:52
the bright side now you can fire
28:54
unemployment on the same computer you
28:56
called me a nigger with have a nice
28:58
fucking day
29:05
[Applause]
29:11
[Music]
29:13
everybody sing a favorite color on the
29:15
country one two three play
29:17
thats disgusting all right
29:22
um so Im gonna do this my poem um so I
29:25
came up coming all the way from Dallas
29:26
Texas so Im not I have merchandise for
29:32
sale I want everybody to take me home
29:34
with them in so many different ways I
29:39
got books for sale theyre ten dollars
29:43
yes only two nothing like whisper
29:45
amongst yourself when I say the right I
29:47
have books me over $10 yeah dollars
29:51
right so $10 and if you get two of them
29:54
theyre 20 so I got a bunch of checks of
29:59
sailing up under search with me Ill
30:01
show you real quick before I get to the
30:03
next thing my shirts are really awesome
30:06
thats what it says make Kayne great I
30:11
only have a limited number of those you
30:14
know I have one machine after I do this
30:17
poem they have this way this one is uh
30:20
anybody selling items upside dual that
30:23
falls out mental illness and Im
30:24
surviving mental illness and Im going
30:26
through finding the strength to go out
30:28
the day so I found myself wearing this
30:31
shirt I just got a may not were like not
30:34
because I didnt do laundry because I
30:35
wanted to wear buy a bunch of times
30:37
lets eat and its um Im intentional AF
30:40
this is fuck Im intentionally of Im
30:42
brave as fuck I have a protest louder
30:45
than my demons I am proof that
30:47
depression wont win today so thats
30:51
that right I got one more shirt that
30:53
ima show yall after this poem that
30:55
pool yes yeah
30:57
whoo all right theyre young feel some
31:01
liquor good do that
31:03
they still like vodka you know fucking
31:06
Capri Sun please thank you so much with
31:18
death I spent most of the day trying to
31:20
flush yesterdays alcohol out of my body
31:22
I was in Tampa last night and turned up
31:25
last night was real so um I was up early
31:28
this morning trying to flush yesterdays
31:30
like Im about you know I was a
31:31
Starbucks Ohio my expensive ass coffee
31:34
and this woman she has a little
31:36
stupid-ass ring a little stupid s face
31:38
and I know exactly what she wanted I
31:42
knew exactly whats gonna happen next
31:44
um she maneuvered that hole at the
31:47
bottom of the head to ask me can I touch
31:49
your hair now keep in mind she was
31:52
already touching my hair while she was
31:53
asking me if she could touch my hair and
31:55
Im like I say Rachel with his race
31:56
heads up this poem shes way he said oh
31:58
my goodness
31:58
it doesnt feel dry at all listen no my
32:02
hair isnt dry or unkept and concentrate
32:04
for you believe it smells amazing Im
32:06
black us black folk of Airwolf
32:08
skin a bronze eyes like fire flame of
32:11
brass feet will Sparta kick you in the
32:13
chest if you ever touch my godliness
32:15
without my permission you cant touch
32:17
man because I have some motherfucking
32:19
pets core specimen at azubu penis hot
32:21
tub told me table or no I never say if
32:23
it takes to curiosity your hands are
32:25
dirty dont touch me with your back in a
32:26
compliments my history begins in my
32:28
roots I let my culture drink my crown
32:31
but I tips on my lineage rest on my
32:33
shoulders got stranded stories scripted
32:35
at the top of my back and no you cant
32:37
manhandle my mothers narrative Im
32:39
protected over my temple thats why I
32:41
keep my first banks I got tired of
32:42
people stealing my culture so a lot to
32:45
my hair so you cant get inside of it
32:47
dont touch my hair Im still cleaning
32:49
your ancestors fingerprints off of it
32:51
this is not just I have this is a
32:54
heritage a representation of who we are
32:55
we are black we are adaptable we will be
32:58
born with thick skin the safeguard our
33:00
hearts and hands on our tongues the clap
33:02
dont touch my hair a little each lock
33:05
by his name through this Harriet this
33:07
Henrietta
33:07
this is Oprah
33:08
this is Marlene this is Kendrick this is
33:11
cold this Blue Ivy this is kind of this
33:13
is Nigeria this is Kenya all of it is
33:16
Africa shes theres a crescent
33:17
consonant for my spine the top of my
33:19
back so I wear my hair like a sycamore
33:21
fig good away from the fences the middle
33:23
passage dont forget where you came from
33:24
dont forget you go in dont you ever I
33:27
dont forget the women who twist who cut
33:29
who prick who leave the women who sleep
33:32
uncomfortably like this and sit in the
33:33
same spot for hours just to get their
33:36
hand right for nobody else for
33:37
themselves and their families myself and
33:40
my family and thats a goddamn sideshow
33:42
or to be fondled in the middle of
33:44
Starbucks well I have hung the fuck over
33:47
so know who L is the bill you cannot
33:49
touch my hair
33:51
[Music]
33:57
[Applause]
34:00
[Music]
34:09
so before I close out and get up shop
34:12
face and stuff I want to do a couple
34:14
things one thing I need to do with
34:16
everybody real quick parley is get a
34:17
selfie and Im gonna post this on my
34:19
social media so if youre with your side
34:21
piece this is a good time to actually
34:24
pick some stuff off the ground all right
34:29
this is act like you dropped it is fine
34:31
even after I said do it all right here
34:35
we go
34:35
oh god Im so sweaty Whats Wrong b12
34:39
that was sexy look at me all right
34:45
oh so um and the last thing I want to
34:49
talk to yall about is Im eight who has
34:51
a phone you have a phone cuz you ever
34:52
put your phone in there
34:57
yeah hi before there all right all right
35:00
now going Instagram and save me on
35:02
instagram follow me my name is Rachel
35:04
might even histogram and like the first
35:06
person to follow me will get a free book
35:09
rage all money on this Instagram and
35:11
draw facebook gives you a free booklet
35:13
recall money he likes me on Facebook too
35:15
and the first one selected cuz a free
35:17
book all right Ill give to people so
35:19
first two people right all right
35:21
so oh so it looks you know who said that
35:31
you said that tell you you said that I
35:34
got you better yes is you know how do
35:37
you got free book yeah good job is it
35:41
here I dont with the grown-ups and shit
35:45
there you go alright yo my name is
35:46
rachel mighty pick up listen to me
35:48
follow me on social media rates almighty
35:50
everywhere im every google of old
35:52
follow me on facebook instagram
35:55
myspace whatever right so thank yall
36:00
thank you mommy fees
36:03
[Applause]

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