By Button Poetry
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Mason Granger, performing at Rustbelt 2018 in Detroit, MI.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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I teared up during the postgame
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interview listening to the college
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football coach talk about his team two
00:11
seasons ago they went o in 12 and now I
00:14
just watched them win their bowl game in
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dramatic fashion to finish this season
00:18
12 and no undefeated a text this to
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Melissa kind of poking fun at myself and
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she replies oMG dad a nickname she gave
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me I guess because I’m a guy who’s older
00:31
and not trying to sleep with her the bar
00:34
is pretty low for father figures these
00:35
days and maybe that’s why I’m crying at
00:40
this football game my wife thinks I’ll
00:42
make a good real dad one day she’s
00:45
Haitian and she babysits and once a
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little blonde toddler she was watching
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went through her purse and put on all
00:51
her makeup and went my wife caught her
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the girl explained she did it because I
00:56
want to be pretty like you vasty and I
01:00
imagine my wife looking into the adoring
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eyes of this little white kid staring
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back in full blackface trying to use
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this as a teachable moment while also
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not smirking at the absurdity I mean my
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wife is a bona fide kid whisperer so I
01:17
know that ours would have had it made
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and maybe that’s what this is all about
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I tell Melissa and she says Mason I’m so
01:26
sorry I told my mom and she says honey
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I’m so sorry and now we’re all crying at
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the post game because sometimes you lose
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one and you discover you’re a dad and
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not all at once but mostly just that not
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because neither of you knew that
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something you didn’t want to happen
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didn’t happen so how do you untie that
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and when I think back on us going to bed
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the night before I can’t help but think
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we were a family
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and when I think of the concept of
01:57
losing something you never had see
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there’s a timeline where you didn’t have
02:01
the thing touching when you used to have
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the thing so the space for the thing
02:06
doesn’t even exist and so when that
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space is where the sadness is there’s
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nowhere to put it but it’s everywhere
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and I know it’s nobody’s fault it’s
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natural
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these things happen more often than we
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know certainly more often than we talk
02:23
about but really that’s why I’m crying
02:27
alone watching football while this grown
02:29
man beams at how proud he is that his
02:32
kids emerged undefeated
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[Applause]
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