By: Button Poetry
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Native Child, performing at the 2019 Black Arts Matter Poetry Slam.
About Button:
Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry.
We seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.
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trigger warning this poem was meant to
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be funny I tried to think funny be funny
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channel my inner comedian write funny
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across a blank page funny like that time
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I broke my arm running from a squirrel
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true story if funny I thought it was
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chasing me funny it really wasn’t funny
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I still believed the squirrel apocalypse
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is a thing funny like that time a boy
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called me fat when I told him I thought
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he was cute
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I kept the joke going kept his home boys
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laughing kept my waistline expanding
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inside the punchline hoping they
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wouldn’t notice it wasn’t funny like
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that time I lost my wallet I found
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myself at the grocery store a cart full
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of baby formula funny
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that nice lady paid funny I really
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didn’t lose my wallet funny I didn’t
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have enough money to fill my car and my
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child’s belly funny how life is keep
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writing you will get too funny keep
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laughing laughter is the only thing that
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will make this poem funny like that time
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I wrote my first haiku along the wall of
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my college dorm funny it was actually a
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suicide note
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funny no one noticed they saved the ones
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that laugh the most laugh the least
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Robin Williams Anthony Bourdain my
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cousin me they say laughter is the best
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medicine if I keep laughing maybe I’ll
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be cured if I keep writing maybe I’ll be
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cured after all what do you say to God
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halfway through a poem prayer a punch
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line
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a suicide note funny
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[Applause]
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