By Button Poetry
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Adam Falkner, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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the best queers never even got touched
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all you needed was a ball and a group of
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boys who weren’t afraid of violence and
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it didn’t even need to be a ball
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sometimes we used an empty 2-liter or a
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shoe and the boys didn’t even need to be
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violent you could just have gotten a
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thrill out of fearing it but anyway the
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idea was pretty basic you swarm and you
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tackle the kid with the ball who was the
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queer and if they threw it up in the air
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before they got smeared then we
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scrambled to grab it and sprint away
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from the group in other words the point
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was to be the kid was to be the queer
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and kill the queer to crash your skin
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into a heap of sweaty and grass-stained
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boys while avoiding being touched and
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I’d like to say I loved escaping or
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running after and tackling but that
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would be a bit on the nose don’t you
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think because duh we get it I mostly
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just wanted to belong in the hunt
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without hunting or hurting or knowing
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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