A dear friend has been hosting her own shows titled “Lauren Adams is a Jealous bitch” and it’s a beautiful collaboration of having all these talented, impressive friends on stage to do what they do best and then she tells them why she’s jealous of them. It’s heartwarming, funny, engaging and beautifully human. She also goes into list of other random things she’s jealous of. I love that she shows up so honestly in her humanness on stage, instead of ignoring it, scoffing it off or pretending it doesn’t exist, she owns it and she owns it like a badass.
I have left both shows feeling equally inspired and seen, even this last one in which she asked me to perform to which I nervously said yes to. Standing there while someone tells you why they’re jealous of you is the equivalent of standing there while someone compliments you, I get nervous every-time and always immediately want to back away and or quickly return the favor instead of just sitting in the love (it’s that humility/make yourself small conditioning but I’m working on it).
Often times when people ask me to perform for themed like events, I tend to play around with the topic, phrase or theme in my head so long it starts to slow cook a poem. Each day I’ll get a new phrase or line and that’s how I spill poems more often than not. I of course couldn’t resist writing a poem of all the things I’m jealous of as one of my pieces to perform.
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