Who We Are, and NanoRhymo — Angela Brett at A Bunch of Monkeys Read Some Stuff on JoCo Cruise 2020
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 07/04/2020

You probably don't know who this is.
You probably don't know who this is!
'cause only a fan'll
see who runs this channel
You probably don't know who this is.

Okay so it's me, with Joey Marianer (https://www.youtube.com/user/roiem) on ukulele, singing a song I wrote called 'Who We Are'. 

We’re close, and I’m finally here with you.
You don’t look like your avatar.
Until I demand all
your names and your handles,
I probably won’t know who you are.

You’ve changed name and gender
your hair, or your shirt
You took off your glasses
your beard or your skirt
You left for three seconds,
your mouth’s now ajar.
I probably don’t know who you are

I probably don’t know who you are.
I probably don’t know who you are!
Your name and your face too,
I just cannot place you.
I probably don’t know who you are.

You’ve just really killed it at open mic.
Your singalong chorus went.  far,
but nobody says so
when you’re off the stage, so 
they probably don’t know who you are.

They snubbed you at dinner
they brought the wrong beer
Regaled you with stories
you told them last year.
They won’t share their stateroom
or give back your car
They probably don’t know who you are

They probably don’t know who you are.
They probably don’t know who you are!
Even if someone knows ya, 
there’s prosopagnosia —
they probably don’t know who you are.

You once seemed at least somewhat normative
but each year things get more bizarre.
There’s joy and there’s strife while
you’re changing your lifestyle.
You probably don’t know who you are.

I couldn’t write this part;
It wouldn’t be true.
Just think about things
That are changing for you. 
It takes time and patience
To tune a guitar
You probably don’t know who you are

You probably don’t know who you are.
You probably don’t know who you are!
You’re constantly growing 
new parts for not knowing.
You probably don’t know who you are.

We probably don’t know who we are.
We probably don’t know who we are!
And we don’t know whether
we’ll find out together.
We probably don’t know who we are.

After that, I read a selection of tiny rhyming poems I wrote for #NanoRhymo (not to be confused with NaNoWriMo) often inspired by the 'random rhyme' button on my rhyming dictionary: http://rhyme.science/?random=1

They were all originally posted on my Twitter stream at https://twitter.com/macaronique, and then collected in the following blog posts:

https://angelastic.com/2018/12/02/nanorhymo/
https://angelastic.com/2019/05/30/glopowrimo-2019/
https://angelastic.com/2020/01/21/nanorhymo-2/

Here are the words to the NanoRhymo poems, and links to the original tweets:

Don’t worry that you might incur the
sentence, “That person’s unworthy.”
Just try what you wish, and try plenty,
and have a great year twenty-twenty.

https://twitter.com/macaronique/status/1212454259180085261

Dear Father, a prayer I remember, amen.
Another, sincere from a vendor, again.
As if by reciting just ten or eleven words
I’ll lift myself quite transcendentally heavenwards.

https://twitter.com/macaronique/status/1215001693324238848

While you’re growing in the field,
all your goodness is concealed,
till some lovely creature picks you,
doesn’t think they have to fix you,
lets you chill, let down your shield;
then, when you are fully peeled,
your sweetest inner self revealed,
that cunning rascal bites and licks you.

https://twitter.com/macaronique/status/1213539068291760128

Some may say that art’s nonvital —
mere indulgence for the idle.
But while we breathe with no recital,
without reprieve, we’re suicidal.

https://twitter.com/macaronique/status/1120077495133454339

A tree would never leave you;
it’s your steadfast, loyal bud.
A tree would never leave you;
it will root for you, come hail or flood.
A tree would never leave you;
it’s as solid as hardwood.
A tree would never leave you,
but Bernard would.

https://twitter.com/macaronique/status/1067547762584141824
The letter about the sentient spray bottle named Bernard can be seen at https://www.patreon.com/posts/35589520

If⟹

If you see a proposition,
apply to it your intuition,
at length, exerting full cognition,
come to trivial fruition,
and restart with a new suspicion,
then you’ll be a mathematician.

https://twitter.com/macaronique/status/1062821308763901953

Have some more whoops on me,
hearing the Sloop John B
as JoCo Cruise comes to an end.
You still have all night.
Hang loose, or sleep tight.
Well, we feel so broke up
but you’ll stay my friend.

https://twitter.com/macaronique/status/1197625778327953425

I’ll put the full event in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0ixrSXw4PzmvU1gnJw5CLjh