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Shane Koyczan “Instructions for a Bad Day”

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Shane Koyczan “Instructions for a Bad Day”

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Michael Powell

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Shasparay - "Black Girl Magic"
"You are pretty for a dark girl, don't listen to the noise"
"Look at my black friend, I mean token, I mean trophy, they will put you on a shelf until it's not convience"

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Shasparay - "Black Girl Magic" (WoWPS 2016)

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Rhiannon McGavin "Smile"

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Instructions For A Bad Day - Shane Koyczan

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Repetition

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Phil Kaye // Repetition (Poetry Observed)

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Rudy Francisco “Complainers” (Clean Version)

“It doesn’t matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty.

There’s water in the cup; drink it and stop complaining…”

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Rudy Francisco - "Complainers" (NPS 2014)

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Kate Tempast "Icarus"
“No one even noticed as he splashed and hit the seabed. I wonder what he saw before he fell…”

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Michael Lee “Pass On”
“We are not created or destroyed,

we are constantly transferred, shifted and renewed.”

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WOODCREST MANOR
Ever come across something for the first time
Be it a person place or thing
They gave you an instant feeling of happiness
Made you glad to be alive
And eventually as time goes on the feeling gets weaker, and weaker, and weaker
And you don't know why
It's slowly becoming less exciting
And the whole time you're in denial about this decreasing value
And you know it in the back of your mind
That the feeling's fading away
And it's almost over

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Phil Kaye "Repetition"
“If you just wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, one day you’ll forget why…”

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Michael Lee “Pass On”

“We are not created or destroyed, we are constantly transferred, shifted and renewed.”

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Hannah Dains "Enough"

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Eric Darby "Scratch and Dent Dreams"

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Shane Koyczan “Instructions for a Bad Day”

“Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed.”

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Shane Koyczan “Instructions for a Bad Day”

“Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed.”

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Masks
She had blue skin
And so did he
They searched for blue
Their whole life through
Then passed right by
And they never knew.
-Shel Silverstein

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Totally like whatever, you know? by Taylor Mali

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Taylor Mali   Totally like whatever, you know

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Accents
“Her accent is a stubborn compass always pointing her towards home.”

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Jesse Parent  (to the boys who may one day date my daughter)
"When you played at war, I was perfecting headshots. You can't catch up at this point."

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Instructions for a Bad Day
“Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed.”

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Instructions for a Bad Day - Shane Koyczan Pink Shirt Day Student Collaboration

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“Somewhere
In the Northwest region of Seattle Washington
There’s a homeless man, armed with a beer can
Trying to drink away war memories
Waiting for someone
Self-less enough to lend him an ear
He sits on the side of a Pizzeria on the corner of Queen Ann and Mercer
In a chair, they probably kick him out of after business hours
His skin
Has grown all too fond of the concrete beds that he rest his shell-shocked head on
His braggadocios body
rocks back and forth showing off to the world the only gifts war veterans ever receive
He addresses me, “Ey lil Bra, you got a dollar?”
Without even checkin my pockets I tell him, “I aint got it”.
Having anticipated this appointment he responds with,
“That’s fine, cause I really wanted a 20.”

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Agasewaya "I Hide My Tears"

I hide my tears from this world,
For if I were to cry,
I would find myself with all my fears,
Behind my door tonight,
And so for this I keep my tears,
Buried in my heart ,
So that my fears won't find me weak,
And tear my mind apart,
I stay strong to keep them at bay,
And to keep from falling apart,
And so my tears will fly away,
And I will not take part.

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Andrea Gibson "Maybe I Need You"

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Lamar Jordan “Shooter”

“We fight foreigners when we are the ones who would shoot you. I’m sorry.”

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Shane Koyczan "Instructions for a Bad Day"

"Love and hate are beasts and the one that grows is the one you feed."

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Shel Silverstein "Underface"

"Underneath my outside face There’s a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me."

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Ginger Marshall & Bxk “Parenthesis”

“The parenthesis are necessary, but nasty, concealing truth and fear…”

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Katie Makkai "Pretty"

"You will be pretty intelligent, pretty creative, pretty amazing, but you will never be merely 'pretty.'"

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Kate Tempest "Icarus"

"No one even noticed as he splashed and hit the seabed. I wonder what he saw before he fell..."

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Rudy Francisco “Complainers” (Clean Version)

“It doesn’t matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty.

There’s water in the cup; drink it and stop complaining…”

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Spoken-Word Poet Rudy Francisco Performs His Poem "Complainers"