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[buttonpoetry]

The hardest thing I ever did was take a shower.

FROM THE VAULT! Jared Singer, "Just Take a Shower" (Button Live)

Featured at Button Poetry Live, July 2017. Want Button Poetry to come to your city? You can help make it possible!

[spoken-word-to-written-word]

Rudy Francisco - "My Honest Poem"

I was born on July 27th, that makes me a Leo

I don’t really know what that means.

I’m 5’6”

I weigh 245 pounds

I don’t know how to swim

And I’m a sucker for a girl with a nice smile and clean sneakers

I’m still learning how to whisper

I’m often loud in places where I should be quite

And quiet in places where I should be loud

I was born feet first and I’ve been backwards ever since

I like ginger ale...a lot

And I’ve been told that I give really bad hugs

People say it feels like I’m trying to escape

Sometimes it’s because I am

Secretly I get really nervous every time someone gets close enough to hear me breath

I have this odd fascination with things like sandcastles and ice sculpture

I assume it’s because I usually find  myself dedicating time

to things that will only last a few moments.

That's also why I tend to fall in love with women who will never love me back

I know it sounds crazy but it’s actually much easier than it seems

And to be honest I think it’s safer that way

See relationships they often remind me that

I’m not afraid of heights or falling

But I’m scared of what’s gonna happen the moment that my body hits the ground

I’m clumsy

Yesterday I tripped over my self esteem

I landed on my pride and it shattered like an iphone with a broken face

Now I can’t even tell who’s trying to give me a compliment.

I’ve never been in the military but I have this purple heart

I got it from beating myself up over things I can’t fix

I know this sounds weird but sometimes

I wonder what my bed sheets say about me when I’m not around

I wonder what the curtains would do if they found out

About all the things I’ve done behind their backs

I’ve got a hamper that’s overflowing with really really loud mistakes

And a graveyard in my closet

I’m afraid that if I let you see my skeletons

You’ll grind my bones into powder and get high off my fault lines

Hi, my name is Rudy and I enjoy

Frozen yogurt, people watching, and laughing for absolutely no reason at all

But I don’t allow myself to cry  as often as I need to.

I have solar power confidence

I have a battery-operated smile

My hobbies include:

Editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors,

And trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.

I don’t know much but I do know this,

I know heaven is full of music

I know God listens to my heartbeat on his Ipod

It reminds him that

We still got work to do.

Video Performance:

[bostonpoetryslam]

“I wanna make out with all of my unread emails.”

Melissa Lozada-Oliva performs “Low Power Mode” in a video from Button Poetry Live

[homemade-ghosts]

You know, the truth hurts less when it is not parading around in front of us.

Sabrina Benaim - "How to Unfold a Memory" 

[buttonpoetry]

Remind yourself that sometimes you have to wear out a record to go in search of a new one.

FROM THE VAULT! Anna Marie, "Lessons in the Mirror" 

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