[New-Poetry] impotence of proofreading

[JforJames at aol.com]

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhOBiSk8Gg) 
 
I ran across a link to this video yesterday on someone's blog. It's  
funny...esp. for those who teach young students. But the clip shows how the  slam 
format, of which Taylor Mali is a master, can get in the way. The slam  
performance is usually limited, in competition, to 3 minutes. Thus, slam poets  think 
they must fill the full three minutes or they've left something on the  
table...of course, as is the case in this piece, if you don't have enough say,  you 
keep saying it, and saying it again in different ways, till your alotted  time 
is up, leaving much room for that 'red penis' to have worked its magic, had  
you not crafted the piece for the slam format.
 
You can tell by Billy Collins' expression, that he gets it, he got it, he  
really got the joke of the piece/poem,
and now is waiting for it to end.
 
Being a master of the typo...I really shouldn't speech.
 
Finnegan



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