slamming poems at dems: the last 72 hours

“Okay, I need to put this out there:

“Sacra­men­to rep­re­sent­ed it­self so well out in San Diego, at the Cal­i­for­nia De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Con­ven­tion. I’m be­yond hon­ored to even be men­tioned with any of these peo­ple.

“I’ve said it be­fore, re­peat­ed­ly, and I’ll keep say­ing it: the youth po­ets in our city are the most amaz­ing po­ets we have. There are so many hearts wait­ing for per­mis­sion to open up and per­form or cre­ate the art that’s tru­ly with­in them.

“We have a 17 year old poet rep­re­sent­ing us, alone, to­mor­row out here and I have noth­ing but faith in her abil­i­ty to open the hearts of every­one who hears her voice. Like, she ab­solute­ly made a new fan out here – and I’m so cer­tain I’m far from the last one.

“I un­der­stand why stag­na­tion and the ‘no’ syn­drome hap­pens, but it’s bull­shit.

“Speak your words. Paint your can­vas. Craft your mu­sic. Nev­er be afraid to Be who you are deep in your heart. If you ex­press hon­est­ly, they will al­ways feel you – even the fak­est ones who are lis­ten­ing and watch­ing

“We love you, out here. Knock your­self alive with the truth with­in you.

“Si, se puede.

“Yes, you can.”

—David Loret de Mola
 

Also David Loret de Mola (be­low, point­ing at me) end­ed up start­ing a “Let’s all chant” chant.

So I flew to San Diego to go get guer­ril­la with some of my fa­vorite po­ets at the Cal­i­for­nia De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Con­ven­tion.

Yeah. They in­vit­ed us to come and yell po­ems at politi­cos. What a wild life.

Sacra­men­to, your po­ets left love, sweat, and tears on the floors and side­walks of that con­ven­tion in by far the most un­wel­com­ing en­vi­ron­ment I’ve ever per­formed in.

That was one of the hard­est art­works that I have ever been a part of cre­at­ing. Rig­or­ous pas­sion and tena­cious ded­i­ca­tion on be­half of David Loret de Mola, Grace Loesch­er, Jeanette Sem, Farah Bil­lah, Kali Aus­se­let, and Danielle Shavonne.

We start­ed out yelling po­ems at peo­ple, and by to­day (yes­ter­day now, sor­ry. Haven’t slept since yes­ter­day at 7am). We re­al­ized … There are enough peo­ple yelling. There aren’t enough lov­ing. And you should have seen how the en­er­gy and re­cep­tion changed when we start­ed lov­ing folks in­stead of just yelling po­ems at them. I know we all need­ed that les­son. I think the rest of hu­man­i­ty could ben­e­fit from it.

Danielle Shavonne – a 16 year old queen from Sacra­men­to — was on stage at the gen­er­al ses­sion in front of thou­sands of pol­i­cy mak­ers be­ing truth, light, and love. TELL EM.

Planned Parenthood’s ‘Break the Silent Dis­co’

You can doubt mag­ic if you want. It doesn’t need your be­lief to ex­ist.

Sacra­men­to you should be proud of your po­ets. I just can not say enough about these war­riors … but luck­i­ly I don’t have to ’cause they know.

Thank you Planned Par­ent­hood. And thank you Sol Col­lec­tive for be­ing the cul­tur­al hub of our city and con­stant­ly work­ing to cre­ate space and up­lift artists with mes­sages of com­mu­ni­ty em­pow­er­ment by any means nec­es­sary. None of us would be here with­out you.

 
 

—an­dru de­f­eye

Flom­mist An­dru De­f­eye is the Guer­ril­la Poet Lau­re­ate of Sacra­men­to. Copy­right © 2018 An­dru De­f­eye.

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