Back Porch Poetry, Take One: Autostatement
Channel: TenthSpeedWriter
Date: 16/08/2011

A back porch poetry reading. Photobooth homebrew video, done about an hour ago. Consider this the prototype.




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Autostatement.


I am coffee-stained grin through shave pocked lips

I am pi calculated for aesthetic value

I am blistered hands covered in ink and paint and sawdust

And I am

I am lines in subtle steady pattern, bracing shoulders of Atlas

I am idea machine gun sputter listening for echoes

I am wetly applied 

And I am

I am hot trot when off-key singing

I am three days on a short weekend

I am alcohol flame, burn clean, flicker free

And I am

I am not Whitman, I am not Hughes, I am not Ginsberg

I am amalgamation of second-gen prints and sketch outlines

I am rolling banjo, Scuggs roll, fake clawhammer laughing roll

And I am

I am rattling down the dirt road, a blind bobcat 

I am hard to read like a five word flier

I am in another language

And I 
Most importantly,
I am.