Teramacpoetry

Tmac, grassroots poet, believer, and PhD.

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This tree in my front yard makes me smile. #tree #pitt #412 #spring

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#steelcityslam took 2nd tonight at the #wyi against Buffalo, Cleveland and Cbus! 412!!!! Holla! #412 #614 #slam #spokenword #wildgoosecreative #effme #survivor #cbus #words (at Wild Goose Creative)

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Had to leave Brooklyn early so Watching Wowps Final Stage like a boss. Livestreaming now. Show will start in 15. #WOWPS2016 #wowpsbk

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The point is not points. The point is poetry. Had a great time at #WOWPS2016. While I did not make the top 12 I was proud to rep the city I love so much and to speak with my voice about to many things that needed to be said. It is the greatest feeling in the world to have people come up to you crying and asking if they can hug you because your pieces touched them and their own struggles right now. Proud to be the 53rd women poet in the world for 2016. (at Pratt Institute)

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Repping #fixme poem at #wowps #wowps2016 #wowpsbk (at Brooklyn, New York)

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Repping at #wowpsbk with my #suicide #poem #awareness

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Check out my nationals poem! Thanks to #buttonpoetry and #psi #poems #poetry #fixme #slam #spokenword #love #pain #hurt #slamiam #slampoetry #words #writer #write #twloha #live #life

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My 2015 Nationals Piece.

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I do not know how to love people without fixing them #nps

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Fall is for donuts at the Pumpkin Patch apparently. :) #donuts #pumpkin #smilesarefree (at Circle S Farms)

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Took first place at the slam this week and all I got was this picture from @bambi_beth ! :) also, did a piece about strangers and took a stranger home who was super nice #strangerswelcome

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I stopped searching for the light. Decided to become it instead. #fall #pitt #412 #light #iseeyoumyworld

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#teramcintosh #danger #tmac #teramacpoetry

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My heart was a broken plate, plastic that should have never been microwaved. a flat tire. a crooked cabinet. an uneven pool table. It stopped working right. It was ugly, it smelled bad... as if I had left it in the sink for too long to be washed.

#mystupidheart #teramcintosh #teramacpoetry #poet-tree #poet #spokenword

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Fix Me

When my sister was born My parents bought her this toy Frankenstein You opened its head and there were toy tools inside, a screwdriver, a hammer. And then you opened its chest....where you fixed his insides as he bellowed "fix me" when you tapped on his heart. I do not know how to love things without fixing them. In highschool we did'nt have a softball team and I wanted to play. So I started a petition and a team. I told all the girls they could wear skirts like in a league of their own. Last year my house was robbed So I started a neighborhood watch I gave the neighbors safety whistles for halloween I handed out M&M's and glow stick necklaces to the kids so they could be seen at night. When the local homeless shelter was low on hats and gloves I sold my guitar to help them for the winter because it was the only way my busted strings Would ever feel whole again I've had fundraisers for Banjo playing dolphins, and balding children of Hollywood celebrities. I once fostered a dog with three leg's named 2pac. Yesterday on my lunch break I got the 41a space shuttle to patch the Ozone myself and was home in time for St. Anthony's Spaghetti Squash Fundraiser. I rescued all that I could. When you told me you were not the settling down type that you often got out of relationships quickly because you saw something shiney I tried anyways. For 3 years. I thought I could fix this. You said I wanted too much, so I stopped wanting and settled. You said, I didn't relax enough, Miami, Chicago, Ocean City. You said I was not as outgoing as I used to be So I joined social sites to meet new friends Canadian Farmers, The International Social Council of Flute Players. fucking anything. I hung out with people I did not even like. Like your Aunt Margarie or That creepy guy from Church who always offers me lemonade as he licks his lips. You said, I did. And still. Nothing was good enough, and for once, I could not fix you, I could not fix me, I could not fix us. On the day you left, I started a petition. Emily the barista at our favorite coffee shop signed it. William your nephew signed it in blue crayon. Sarah win an H, she signed it too. I grabbed my safety whistle from the junk drawer in the kitchen.. I blew it hard. again and again and again. Nobody came. I waved my arms. I flickered the porch light. I tapped on my heart..... (taps heart strong) and yelled FIX ME, FIX ME. I cried for three hours.... the only words I could mutter were... Who fixes the fixers? When we are broken.... #fixme #slampoetry #teramacpoetry #teramcintosh #slampoetry #poets #npsoak #npsoak2015 #writer