Two Act — Angela Brett's poetry show on JoCo Cruise 2021
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 25/04/2021

Since my ulterior motive for doing shows like this (as explained in Why I Perform At Open Mics, earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTUXX2rTGM&list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0gVK9y3KGCNuwUADufNqmNk&index=3) is to some day be an opening act, here’s a poem about Paul and Storm opening for Jonathan Coulton. Paul and Storm are pretty much universally hilarious, whereas Jonathan has songs about monkeys that sound like they’re funny at first, but turn out to be crushingly sad if you think about them. It’s an arrow poem, inspired by an optical illusion of tesselated up and down arrows — the lines read in one order on the up arrow create a more positive message, while the same lines read in the opposite order on the down arrow have a more negative meaning. I’ve written several of these, which you can see (and download as pdf) at http://tinyurl.com/ArrowPoems and http://tinyurl.com/ArrowPoems2 

The full show is at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0gVK9y3KGCNuwUADufNqmNk