Waxing Poetically: Addressing Culture with a Twist of Poetry

This morning as I woke up I wanted to write something powerful about world events, but as with most things, anything worth doing is worth doing correctly and with care. So rather than rushing to the “wordpresses” on the research-heavy topics of the Venezuelan elections, the assumed Zimbabwean collapse, and militant Thai protests, here’s a funny gem of satire from teacher and slam poet Taylor Mali aptly titled “How to Write a political Poem” - and for any folks in the blogosphere who know spoken word political poems, this is actually pretty close to the real thing… (at least as close as Tina Fey is to the real Sarah Palin).

“How to Write a Political Poem” by Taylor Mali

Video by YouTube member baywest

Wax loudly three times! Wax loudly three times! Wax loudly three times!

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