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I Wonder If Elijah McClain Had A Future (Video)

30 Friday Apr 2021

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Elijah Jovan McClain (February 25, 1996 – August 30, 2019) was a 23-year-old black massage therapist from Aurora, Colorado, who died after being placed in a chokehold by police and being sedated by paramedics. On August 24, 2019, an Aurora citizen reported to police that McClain was wearing a ski mask and looked “sketchy”, although the caller also indicated that he did not believe anyone was in danger, and that he believed McClain was unarmed. The three police officers who were involved in the incident, Nathan Woodyard, Jason Rosenblatt and Randy Roedema, said that their body cameras were knocked off during a struggle with McClain. McClain was forcibly held to the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back, after which an officer applied a chokehold and paramedics administered ketamine to McClain to sedate him. While being transported to the hospital McClain went into cardiac arrest. Three days after arriving at the hospital, he was declared brain dead, and was removed from life support on August 30. McClain’s autopsy was inconclusive.

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I’d Rather Be A Rat (Video)

03 Saturday Oct 2020

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7 years ago, my favorite spoken word artist, Suli Breaks, dropped a video called “The American’T Dream (The Purse Suit Of Happyness)”. Before you read further, go watch that video (linked below). It will be worth your time. Suli’s video is speaking out to people who are striving for success by working an unsatisfactory job. That poem moved me!

At one point in his video, Suli said, “even if you win the rat race, you’re still just a rat”. So I took that quote, put it on its ass. Then put it on its head. And then I responded with a poem. As far as the concept of a “rat race” goes [I think] my poem makes absolutely no sense crying emoji. But as far as Suli’s quote goes, I may be on to something…el oh el.

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TELL ME A JOKE :D (Video)

28 Friday Aug 2020

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Some time last year, I was at a poetry show where I was performing. As I was waiting to go on stage, I started chattin’ this cutie pattootie up. At one point, she said, “haha! So what do you do? Write funny poetry?” Right when she asked that, it was my time to go up on stage. Long story short, I flamed the stage! Now, this story has NOTHING to do with this poem, but thank you for reading. I hope you enjoy the video! 🙂

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