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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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Transcript provided by YouTube:
A high school boy with a pop star smile kindly offered to give me a ride home.
Halfway there, he pulled the car over and yanked my ponytail like a leash,
shoved my face into the pleat of his pressed khaki pants so hard,
I cut my lip on the teeth of his zipper.
When the blood dribbled onto his belt, he laughed.
When I felt the red glare of a video recording turn on,
I fantasized about biting his dick all the fucking way off,
but I didn’t.
I stiffened into a frozen Polaroid of a trembling teenage girl instead.
You can’t say no to a question you were never asked.
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