I've never liked poetry. Then I heard this guy and I was like WOW, he's actually saying something. As I listened I wondered why I hated poetry for my entire life. This poem has PERFECTLY described the reason why. THANK YOU, Taylor!
@IsaacRifkin12 жыл бұрын
Same here. I'm supposed to be studying for a class, but one of the course materials was his "Totally like whatever, you know?" and so therefore I've decided that the course material includes that rest of his poems, all the ones I can find.
@thedarkhands14 жыл бұрын
Haha "...eat my verbal dust." I just might have to pull that out during a very intense game of Scrabble with my brother. Brilliant. Positively brilliant.
@MrzovoljnoOko14 жыл бұрын
you are a true performer, and a guy who could change a lot of things. you just have that determination that you've built. love you! keep up the good work! peace and love from Belgrade, Serbia.
@krippy2k15 жыл бұрын
Alliteration and rhyming is not a prerequisite for poetry. As brianjeppesen points out, that was how they tried to define it for a while around the 18th-19th centuries, but going all the way back to Aristotle's Poetics, poetry is all about the aesthetics of language, and there are a lot of ways where the aesthetics of language can be expressed to enhance the overall meaning of what is being told in an artistic way.
@jeffbaer58512 жыл бұрын
Wicked and truthful - and talk about being in good company! Billy Collins, another master. Wish I could have been there that night.
@TheWuzzyLine14 жыл бұрын
Taylor Mali, you are, my idol. I hope to be like you when I grow up.
@kyleedazacluver Жыл бұрын
My poetry teacher showed us this 2000s documentary about the national poetry contest in Portland and everyone in the class was in stitches over this reading. We had just been to the Berkeley poetry slam and gotten a taste of what the cadence was. So on the nose and funny ❤
@plaidpantsglory13 жыл бұрын
Oh god I love everything about this poem. Thank you.
@werdfencer16 жыл бұрын
Love it. Simply love it.
@poppavanlear13 жыл бұрын
Dine on my verval dust...nicely done Taylor.
@lukeevans7292 ай бұрын
Great. Loved it.
@3dogsdesert13 жыл бұрын
@taylormali Thank you for your words and light. I lost my husband in 2008, "For the Life of Me" is magic
@mark180014 жыл бұрын
my god, i know someone who does allll her poetry exactly like this and i could never figure out why it annoyed me so. thank you taylor. thank you.
@Clairifus15 жыл бұрын
awesome. faved.
@podcastbard16 жыл бұрын
Love this poem too.
@KaritaMcB14 жыл бұрын
I've just spent the last two hours becoming a huge fan of you.
@9000ck4 жыл бұрын
Truly amazing and cool...
@getreallanguage14 жыл бұрын
What a performance!
@WVUrockerBoy15 жыл бұрын
seamless description of all the artsy band-wagon dorks in my creative writing senior capstone class
@orla50614 жыл бұрын
That was one of his best, methinks.
@missneshable5 жыл бұрын
Love this
@AndyRiot13 жыл бұрын
I LOVE THIS
@rpeek13 жыл бұрын
@alexiscentric That's pretty much the reaction the crowd had that night, and I did think we were going to have to fight our way out of there but Taylor was amazing. I'd never seen anything like it, before or since.. The man was and is always amazing, that night, was just unbelievable...
@leeeennaa00711 жыл бұрын
GENIUS.
@GeneBurnett14 жыл бұрын
I love this poem. And I can't stand all the stuff he's making fun of! Nailed it! "I....am....signing off. Now..."
@NatFlyer16 жыл бұрын
this is amazing.
@Flubly13 жыл бұрын
@drone81 I've never read a Dickinson biography that didn't sketch her as a reclusive shut-in. Where have you seen this? I'm genuinely curious, not trying to prove a point. Habegger definitely puts emphasis on her unwillingness to leave the house unless it was absolutely necessary in his bio for her.
@Bringing_mae_flowers11 жыл бұрын
I am so glad I am not the only one.
@HugeGene13 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@surtursfire16 жыл бұрын
excellente
@tonpole15 жыл бұрын
Ha, I never noticed Billy Collins. That must have been an awesome reading.
@TheLaughingManZ16 жыл бұрын
so good
@Just1the2boy15 жыл бұрын
It's weird how I agree with BOTH Squallboy1 and drone81 - and I'm a poet! It's good to live in the middle :D
@blackstillos4415 жыл бұрын
I like his point. I've read poetry before and I sorta felt like I should be reading like like I have heard other authors read it. But then I was like fuck it.. Im doin it my way
@merfytruth2215 жыл бұрын
he is the best
@rpeek15 жыл бұрын
Probably true.. It's pretty good in my memory. Hope you're doing well.. take care..
@03100413 жыл бұрын
wthell why can't i have a cool ass teacher like you!
@taylormali15 жыл бұрын
Hello, Outlaw Trucker! How goes it? A video of that performance does exist somewhere. I've seen it. It's better in your memory. Trust me.
@weirdgirl234513 жыл бұрын
man im glad u said it because i didnt want to say anything
@jhilgartner1713 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@SutekkaGhost13 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of Severus Snape
@ataaah13 жыл бұрын
LOL. He's been to the same readings I've been to. Odd we've never met.
@Fragacide14 жыл бұрын
I think his best is "What Teachers Make"
@StoneyCreek00712 жыл бұрын
SO true! :D
@WVUrockerBoy15 жыл бұрын
I'm just saying, this wouldn't get published by any major poetry magazines...
@rere99887716 жыл бұрын
aww man he left out some good lines. Is that Billy Collins next to him? Its hilarious the way he looks at Taylor at the end of the poem, like he was criticizing him the whole time!
@ResidentChicklol11 жыл бұрын
The best
@clinker24313 жыл бұрын
@drone81 thx for that reply. yea I was exaggerating when I said that about Dickenson (also I don't claim to know much about poetry). I knew some of her stuff was published during her life but not much, most of her poems I thought were found later stashed away like they didn't really matter. High school English doesn't go too deep into the subject. I do know though that you can be artistic without an audience, and some sell out for more fans or money. Art is art no matter who sees/hears it.
@79blt13 жыл бұрын
this is funny because ive been to a lot of poetry readings where its been done.haha
@WVUrockerBoy15 жыл бұрын
yes
@imaginarydrummer14 жыл бұрын
so true & hilarious
@BridgeDeAgua16 жыл бұрын
Hey Taylor - what about the line "Glaconian, distemic, irrepscenteelia-" Did you leave that out on purpose?
@hugothepoet15 жыл бұрын
how could you follow that?
@brrrdy15 жыл бұрын
according to wikipedia theyve performed together before
@chucksputum14 жыл бұрын
@KaritaMcB You're not the only one.
@D0g63rt14 жыл бұрын
So you're aware that all her poems have been edited and revised by other people? In their raw form most of her poems were bad and she knew it. That's why she published so few, because she didn't want them published. They were merely exercises for her to improve her writing. She has a small number of decent works, as all aged prolific writers do, but by and large the praise she receives is unwarranted. She is a historical oddity in her peculiarity and was flaunted by those who embrace mediocrity.
@DaiReborn11 жыл бұрын
Lobsterman in Birkenstocks? Dr Zoidberg?
@clinker24313 жыл бұрын
@drone81 I like what you are saying except 'art is what happens at the intersection between the artist and audience, and without the audience, it's all vanity" I mean as far as poets go some of the best never did shows and Emily Dickinson never even really went out of her house. Art is something that catches you and sticks with you, no matter how it is made. Art just is. When it hits you you know it.
@MrCiscojae13 жыл бұрын
Where and when was this?
@smirkingkills13 жыл бұрын
Billy Collins is angry there mate. Look at him fume, you've worked out his little methods. He came to my college in the UK and he called our poet laureate's work "Whimsical poems with spikes".
@Moiez10113 жыл бұрын
@drone81 WOW. that was amazing. this guy i know really needs to read what you just wrote. he doesn't get the message. he contradicts himself, saying "i write for myself" yet on facebook his status updates give updates about his poems and beggin for attention.
@GianFire12 жыл бұрын
It's fuuuuny becaaause I dooo thiissss. xD
@JonathanMahoney16 жыл бұрын
Good stuff. The old dude didn't seem to like it too much though.
@rpeek13 жыл бұрын
@alexiscentric Yea, I'd like to see it too, but I bet Taylor's right. It's probably much better in my memory.. hahaha.
@mediamannaman13 жыл бұрын
Taylor Liam = Orally Am It
@WVUrockerBoy15 жыл бұрын
agreed
@cguinn1712 жыл бұрын
I think he's making fun of people who think they are slam poets because they follow the fashion of it. They don't have their own passion, they borrow on others. The posers, if you will lol.
@fleeced7 жыл бұрын
I agree, but isn't that all of them?
@delikhan11 жыл бұрын
oh no you are not alone...
@niktp14 жыл бұрын
so does everybody in academia.
@thewinebottle13 жыл бұрын
hahaha awesome
@WVUrockerBoy15 жыл бұрын
poetry in itself is not mainstream... the only real mainstream poets are dead... emily dickinson, edgar allen poe, whitman, frost etc... you wont hear many ppl (unless they are real followers of poetry) mention today's big poets; sharon olds, william olsen marie howe
@zynthesis2558 жыл бұрын
Elia war nicht hier
@snikkel11114 жыл бұрын
@KaritaMcB Same here :-)
@squeekytoy12315 жыл бұрын
Funny. And sadly, true.
@BlackKat7113 жыл бұрын
I am a writer, eat my verbal dust...
@0thatdudewill014 жыл бұрын
taylor mali is fuckin hilarious
@WVUrockerBoy15 жыл бұрын
you're right... I do enjoy this, but i wouldn't call it poetry... it is definitely art, but i would describe this more as "rapping" (don't think dr. dre or snoop dog) i'm mean talking to get a point across in an artistic way... but there is no alliteration here, or rhyme, or rhythm or stanza structure (these are all examples of poetic craft) that would make this a poem... but like i said, it is enjoyable
@zynthesis2558 жыл бұрын
Felix war hier
@elizag10011 жыл бұрын
wisely hilarious
@Refoops15 жыл бұрын
Billy Collins almost looked spiteful at the end there.
@willypearl14 жыл бұрын
WHY aren't the people laughing their asses off??!!
@paytonreadsbooksyay10 жыл бұрын
I understand what he was trying to say, but in reality, I found it quite demeaning. I know that that wasn't what he was going for, but that's what I got out of it.
@mumpygumboo85547 жыл бұрын
It's called satire. I find it insightful and humourous. I think if anyone cannot laugh at themselves, they've lost a large part of themselves.
@Poet291613 жыл бұрын
is he making fun of slam poetry? I love him, but I was just wondering...
@WVUrockerBoy14 жыл бұрын
okay im not sure if you have actually studied... because i closely researched Emily's poetry... and she's brilliant. Obviously not everyone will agree on, and enjoy the same poetry, so I understand if you do not like her poetry, but to say she "sucks" is childish, and betrays your ineptness. Her attention to rhyme, rhythm, imagery- is seemless. she counts syllables! The only flaw is- sometimes... she overdoes the hyphen.
@Aaron126308 жыл бұрын
Elia nicht
@Aaron126308 жыл бұрын
Taylor Mali du bist so ein gemeines Gurkengesicht #hater #felixwarhier
@WVUrockerBoy14 жыл бұрын
see, thou art one of these modern poets... you probably think fitty cent and jay-z are poets... don't get me wrong, this stuff is good, but it's slam poetry, something totally different from traditional, written work... it's performance art
@Fingolfin342314 жыл бұрын
No no, my naive friend. This is what happens when people comprehend reality.
@D0g63rt14 жыл бұрын
Frost and Poe are amazing, but anyone who actually knows anything about poetry knows how hardcore Dickinson's writing sucks. Just because you write 5 poems a day doesn't mean they'll be any good. And Whitman is alright. But I cringe when people congratulate Dickinson just because they think they should.
@amanjunk15 жыл бұрын
I watched some of the guy's poems before and he seems like a guy who writes poetry for all the wrong reasons. He does slam poetry solely because he looks at it as competition...
@thecharredremain14 жыл бұрын
lmao cuz they're 'poets' :-p
@Thespiella12 жыл бұрын
guilty.
@D0g63rt14 жыл бұрын
Dickinson is downright awful, and Whitman takes a lot of booze to choke down.