Pardon the late notice, but if you’ve got some time this afternoon, you must stop in at Kwik Cup Espresso (3815 S. Othello St.) where they’re hosting a youth poetry slam from 2pm to 5pm (arrive by 1:30pm for poetry sign-in).
Don’t have time? Cancel everything and head over there.
As a recovering English major who HATED poetry with an unparalleled passion, I can tell you that if you’ve never had the opportunity to witness teens performing spoken word, well, you are just flat missing out. Big time. Because there is nothing more moving, more powerful and more real.
Warning: If brutal yet beautiful honesty makes you uncomfortable, you probably need some spoken word performed by local youth poets.
Kwik Cup Espresso – owned and operated by New Holly neighbors Alllen and Bregeita Jefferson – was on our short list of favorites long before they became an RVP sponsor. Photo/do communications, inc.
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One of the interesting side stories of the war effort against Japan in WWII was the use of Navajo speakers to transmit messages the enemy could never translate. These “code talkers” were brave men, and never deserved the fate their nation thrust upon them- having their story told in a movie starring Nicholas Cage.
Today, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon and other, more shadowy agencies (some of which utilize umlauts in their titles) are restarting the code-talkers program to fool Al Qaeda and other evil doers with teen-talk. Facebook is thick with recruiters for “the Company” ready with a job in Langley for teens who think “itz kewL 2 werk 4r da govMINT!”. No Farsi speaker in a cave will ever grok that load of bobby-soxer malarky
Rainier Valley Post readers: if you dig the teen poetry slam, get ready to feel your mercury amalgam fillings vibrate from CIA transmissions. That will be recruiting central for the next wave of anti-terror warriors!
LOL.
IAJJ.
OMG.
LMFAO
10-4 good buddy
Sean, I thought 10-4 good buddy was from my era. And I know Nicholas Cage only has one role, in every movie he stars in. But he’s good all the same. Leaving Los Vegas speaks to me. Peggy Sue got married to him.
But what would the new code talkers make of these?
DDS
FAGD
FASDA
FICD
FACD
CAADC
DABDA
DNBDA
BFD, WTF
I have fillings. We all have fillings. Sometimes are fillings are hurt.
The bottom line is: are we for our neighborhood, or against it?
Not poetry, I know. I’ll leave that to the youth.
And by the way, “mercury amalgam” isn’t quite right:
“Amalgam is an alloy of any metal and mercury. Thus mercury amalgam would be a mixture of mercury and mercury and would be liquid and a very poor filling material.”
———-From the late Seattle PI.
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