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RJ Wright, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA.
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Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry.
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when my father died he left me with a
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lot of and I’m very uncomfortable with
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I’m always trying to fill the you know
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my last relationship was an experiment
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in silence or the filling of it or how
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much if it can fill house or room or
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prayer or mouth or a body we only notice
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bodies when they’re not I’m a lot like
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silence people love the idea of me but
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can barely stomach the reality or maybe
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maybe I’m nothing like silence you know
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silence has a crown all its own and I’m
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still trying to find the aristocracy and
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my lineage I thought I found it once
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traveling the love lines and my palms
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and then I realized those were just dirt
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roads to nowhere you know silence is a
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lover that adores hearing its name fill
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and caress every empty space in your
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body and ain’t that what a good lover
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does makes you feel whole and heard if
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you listen real close you can almost
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hear the
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[Applause]
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