By Button Poetry
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A Runner Up from the 2021 Button Poetry video contest.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
0:02
let’s not do it
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but it’s button yeah we have to do
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something now
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i know but
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there are so many issues thinking bad
0:12
internet
0:15
there’s already a lag though
0:18
but do you still hash bollywood
0:23
yes i want to bash bollywood let’s do it
0:26
yes let’s do it
0:28
to bollywood
0:30
sincerely
0:33
we have been raised on bollywood dreams
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of opulent jewelry brocade blouses
0:45
[Music]
0:46
to be a heroic a queen
0:49
to be bajirao’s mastani a king’s entire
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life
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to be framed puja whose only identity is
0:57
as his ideal wife
0:59
to be kabir khan’s student whose talent
1:03
cannot be recognized
1:05
unless she has been chosen
1:09
by a man
1:11
bollywood
1:12
you taught us
1:14
to love
1:15
with your happy endings where every
1:18
heroine eventually turns into a bride
1:22
not to love ourselves so we can’t be
1:25
happy unless we settle down right
1:29
it’s called settling down for a reason
1:32
and indian marriage would only pull you
1:34
down if you’re a woman
1:37
bollywood you taught us
1:40
to dream of being plastic packed in red
1:44
and gold
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to be fed to the highest bidder like a
1:48
box of sweets of being beaten and broken
1:52
and then melted into a mold
1:54
and we
1:56
walked right into it smiling from inside
2:00
the plastic
2:01
waiting to be choked stripped then
2:04
broken so they can pick us up piece by
2:09
piece
2:10
and swallowed like our dreams and the
2:13
man the hero
2:15
finally walks away with his treat
2:18
well at least our bollywood dream is
2:20
complete
2:23
dear
2:24
folly
2:26
let us chaperone you to the door you
2:29
ignore that opens to our world you
2:32
pretend to disown did you know we could
2:35
be heroes too
2:37
scratch that
2:38
we are the heroines
2:41
and we have a story of our own stories
2:45
that must be told
2:48
we are sovietly by painting poems to
2:51
teach and empower
2:53
we are as much guy writing female
2:57
characters with emotions who for a
3:00
change also got rights we become kalpana
3:07
but we
3:09
will not be your pretty box of sweets
3:12
that sell
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so we use words like
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suck
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for every movie that now fails the best
3:20
test
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we use words like
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for anyone who tries to put in our
3:27
mouths
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words we are supposed to use or the
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weight that we are supposed to lose
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anyone who forces us to choose a man
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over ourselves
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we say
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3:49
you
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