spoken word

The following are two spoken word pieces, originally written towards the end of March and early April, which I performed last Wednesday, 18 April 2007 as part of U-ACT's "diverseSTORIES".

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This life, peoples, 'things'--multifaceted and many.
Worries, expectations, fears, success, emotions.
What to do? Create something, intangible or real, perhaps.
Culture, ethnicity, race--socially defined.
It changes; the tide is never constant.
Adapt, participate, define, live.
Time, perception, existence, meaning--relative and situational.
Structured, boxed, confined? Speak the mind.


The Socially Attuned World, or something of the sort

Order, destruction; disorder, chaos.
Silence, eyes closed--out disjunction.
A button pops, a jar shatters.
Conversation, senses awaken--meaning ascribed.
Massacres with purpose, information, benefits.
Ethnic dominance, social strata--continuous cycles.
Ignorance, education, regurgitation.
Structure, unfortunate collapse--profitable aid.
Currency, wages, motivation for social changes.
Where it all begins; how it ends.