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Life: Monologue
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A short monologue on life, and the concept of dog-eat-dog.
artist chicago spoken word poet minnesota duluth slam poetry bsg the bsg brandon st germaine
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Spoken word slam ego-poet with rap influences and Modest Mouse esque theology
The BSG is a 3 foot tall white Duluth Minnesotain kid with more mouth than a 3 foot tall white kid should have. Ego-poet, concept artist, spoken word influentialist, activist, and comedian, BSG tells it like it is.
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Genre
Podcasts • Poetry
Charts
Peak #141
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
BSG & Milkman
Rights
Zentatsu
Uploaded
February 26, 2006
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MP3 1.4 MB • 128 kbps • 0:46
Story behind the song
This is an old monologue I wrote in a notebook of some kind after reading F451, BNW, and 1984. I dug it out, recorded it, and Milkman (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=412218) layed some synths down.
Lyrics
We’re all afflicted. That’s the joy of freedom. Big Brother says “Freedom is Slavery.” I’m free to hate you – but what is hate, anyway? I mean, in the world of invisible boundaries set by the government, we allow people to “hate” as much as they want as long as they don’t infringe upon the “natural rights” of another citizen. “Hate,” in that tense, boils down to the statement of hatred itself. Now I’ve never hated anyone, so it’s not like I can claim what hate is, but I do know what it isn’t. I can say I hate something until I turn blue, but I will receive no retribution, no sense of accomplishment from doing that. Simply stating my hatred for something does not give me any sense of satisfaction. People wouldn’t hate unless it made them happy, so I can deduce that hate is not the act of simply stating as much. No, hate requires retribution. In a world of democratic standards, hatred is un-allowed. So what are natural rights? “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” so says the American Constitution. (Let it be known here and now that any book burners should know this statement as true. You can burn as many pieces of literature about peace as you’d like, but the constitution has always read those words.) I'm talking about life. To have my life, I have to take yours.
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