We Want Grits: AM SLAM Poetry: A force to be reckoned with!

We Want Grits: AM SLAM Poetry: A force to be reckoned with!: "November 4, 2010 -Thursday afternoon I profiled one of Slippery Rock’s newest and most promising student clubs :AM SLAM Poetry club. Bein..."

Projections from an Unknown Place

I am nineteen with my head in a bush
And my hair in my face.
I spit out my insides
On the lawn of a stranger.
I trip and fall into a warm place
And feel my bird bones break.
My body is a mystery
And I get sick inside my purse.
I feel old and grown and tired
So I try tying my arms to the ceiling
To stay awake.
I smell cake and I vomit everywhere.

I have a cyber school education and no occupation.
You are unexpected and Bad Timing
But I think of how you will climb.
You will climb the books, climb the cabinets,
Climb the curtains and the walls.
You will try to climb to heaven.
I wanted to go to France, I wanted to play harp,
And learn languages with my hands.
You are the things I don’t know
And the words that don’t exist.
You are composed of multiple pieces
Of personalities and rationalities.
I don’t know who I am, but I know you.
You are the trees, the bees’ knees,
My mood swings, needle and string,
The sleep I can’t receive.
I haven’t dreamt since I saw you on that screen.
You are the moon, you are an animal,
You are thunder breaking my ribs.
You were born at conception,
A miscomprehension.
You are a boy, I can feel it.

Inverted Forest

Mr. Antheter has quite a long nose; so extended, in fact, that his allergies are roughly .25 percent more terrible than those of the average human being with a regular sized nose. He has a wife, so understanding and accepting of this unfortunate facial trait, who kisses him with her head turned almost completely to the side. This is how he knows that she cares about him. She forgets the date of their marriage ceremony, and she sleeps in rather late every morning, leaving Mr. Antheter to flip his own pancakes. But when she does wake up, boy, she smooches her husband sideways with passion that is so often forgotten when lips become familiar.

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Things to Do When You Feel Sad That May Make You Feel Better, Worse, or Exactly the Same.

1. Go outside and look up at the sky until you see a bird. If it is nighttime, look until you see a bat or some other flying object. Try to copy the motions of what you see. If possible, do this in your backyard where no one can see you to mock you or on the side of the road where no one will recognize you. If a bird, a bat, or a UFO is what made you sad in the first place, you may imitate a land roaming, less frightening animal or object.

2. Find a place outside where there is water. It could be a pond by your house, a puddle you stepped in earlier, or some other dirty stream of water running alongside the road. Touch the water with a stick, or if it is somewhat sanitary, with your finger. Watch the water ripple. Look at the little fish swimming. Notice the bacteria and mold grabbing onto the rocks and be thankful that you are a human and not a parasite.

3. You may be feeling weak, unhealthy, or lazy. I recommend taking a vitamin to boost your immune system and make you feel like you are doing something productive for your body. If you do not have vitamins in your medicine cabinet, go to the store and open up a bottle. Put a vitamin in your pocket and close the bottle. Do not take the vitamin before you find water because you will not be able to, probably.

4. Look at yourself in the mirror. Ignore the bags that may be under your eyes, the grease that may be dripping out of your hair and onto your shoulder, and stare at your reflection. Repeat the words, "You made it one more day."

5. Listen to "And Then He Kissed Me" by The Crystals.

The Long Debut of Lois Taggett.

I want to Learn and Create.
and Be Happy.