Buddy Wakefield

[Renegade_Turner]

"Human The Death Dance"

On the face of her phone, Wylenne programs a message to herself so when the alarm clock rings, the screen flashes "every day is one day less, everyday is one day less."

Jordan tattoos the words "forgive me" in thick balck letters on the inside of his arm, so that when he looks at his wrist, he will remember to not hate himself so much.

What they both keep forgetting is that there is life after survival.

After Dave left, Mary started sticking her face between the film projector and the movie screen, so that when the credits roll, she still gets to be somebody.

When Tara's past comes back, she mashes chalk into the sidewalk until her knuckles bleed. She scribbles and scrapes, scribbles and scrapes until the words take shape, and this is what they say, they say, "I wanna die mother, die die mother."

Hold tight, if i love you, cause it might not last long.

We're all gonna die. That's the exciting part. It's learning how to live for a living. That's the tricky part.

Just ask Denise, whose family taught her when she came into this world, that family equals love. So, Denise took that stuff seriously but after a lifetime of craving acceptance from their cruelty, she now finds herself jamming polaroid pictures of these people into her typewriter and pounding out the last letter of the word "mercy" over and over.

She strikes the key "y", "why why why why why". And the answer comes in the form of a hand written letter from the moon.

It says, "This is brutally beautiful. So are we. This is endless. So are we. We can heal this." Signed, Crater Face.

P.S. See me for who I am. We got work to do.

But my father, he didn't read moon, he didn't speak moon, he didn't write moon. So there was no note left next to his body when he decided to leave this world on purpose without telling us where he was going or why.

There are still days you can catch me tape recording eternal silence and playing it backwards for an empty room. Just so I can listen to his dying wish.

It's true. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. But thank goodness, my family tree was in an orchard on a hill that rolled me to the river and that river rifted me to the rapids and those rapids rushed me into this moment. Right here, right now, with you.

It's a mouth, this is my church. And this church is a house of healing. Hallelujah. Welcome, come on in. As you are. Have a look around...stay out of my porn.

There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard, clearly, I have not yet reached enlightment beyond a few fleeting moments, but I'm trying.

And I found something here I want you to have, it's not much, just a story, but it's all I got. So take it.

It's called Dylan. Dylan's drug of choice was "more." So Dylan took more and more and more. Until the day he woke up babbling in the pool of his own traffic jam, realising he is killing off the best parts of himself, and claiming he could read people's skin.

When he looked down at his heart flap, it said "Boy, go find your spine, and ride it out of here."

Wylenne's guts said "Day one."
Jordan's arms were "fully forgiven."
Mary's face, "The ENDless."
Tara's knuckles,"Healing."
Denise's fingers said, "C" "See see see see see."

And Dylan said, my smile, it said "Fix it." So I came back here, to the mouth of the river to look at my own reflection under the moonlight and see what it says for myself.

On my whole body, it is written.

P.S. See me for who I am. We got work to do. As for Crater Face, I don't speak for that guy. His skin, "brutally beautiful."

- Hand-written letter from the Sun.

[Zhukov]

Ooooookay.

Someone, somewhere, has been smoking. A lot.

[Precastwig]

Whhhahaaaaaaaaaat??????

[invertin]

This makes perfect sense in every way.

[Glabbit]

I, er, agree, with your things.
Your saying things.

[Renegade_Turner]

Buddy Wakefield is a spoken word artist.

This is a link to a live reading of it by Buddy Wakefield. You don't get the full effect of the piece without hearing it. Furthermore, simply listening to it doesn't give the effect that SEEING it does. He's an irrepressibly energetic enigma of a man doing something which he clearly has a passion for, and passion is something sorely lacking in a lot of performing arts these days, and art in general.

This reading in particular is a bit slower than another video that I had that was on youtube, although there are parts where he bursts into life. Seeing him is the real deal. If you've any interest in this, go see him if you ever notice him performing somewhere nearby.

He's one of the few real living poets.

[Freshbite]

What's with all the unpurpleness? (grammar)

[Renegade_Turner]

If you can't gather the reason for that from reading then there's no hope for you.

[Precastwig]

If you can't gather the reason for that from reading then there's no hope for you.

What if we're 14?

[Freshbite]

I take it as it's because this is not originally your writing.

[Renegade_Turner]

You, Sir, win a medal.

[Freshbite]

Perfect, I'll hang it up on my wall.