i’ve been horribly remiss with posting.
and for that i’m sorry. things have been hectic and i’ve been running around like a chicken-clown, juggling a hundred balls with me head chopped off. if that’s not one hell of a mixed metaphor i don’t know what is.
but i will do better. i have the ability in me to do better and so i shall.
but to make up for being slow with posting… i’ll post a completely draft poem, so that you can watch the editing process over time. aren’t you special? front seat to the creative process.
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let’s walk the slope
of crashing line graphs
find each other
at the ends of loss projections
dance and swagger
on trading floors
awash with stolen dreams
the effluence of stymied greed
coked and caffeinated fear.
we’ll laugh
when others would cry
build bonfires
with stock receipts
and whiskey drenched bar stools
our rage, righteous
partially at our own impotence
fuel for our lovemaking.
we’ll bring new meaning
to the tears already wept.
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i have a few shows that i’m negotiating now, so i might be coming to a school near you soon. but if you’re connected to your school’s asian am clubs or spoken word clubs or any other organization, throw me an email, bring me out. it’ll be beautiful to come and see ya’ll, party it up and build together. building together should probably be ahead of partying shouldn’t it? then again, i /am/ a vietnamese boy from boston.
but for all of you that are reading, thanks for reading. yall are beautiful. i don’t deserve you. but damn will i ever try to deserve you.
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so i didn’t compete. had a school thing come up last second. which is awful considering i dropped the weight. but such is life.
i just wanted to shout out my team though, as we have multiple new blues, a new purple and have had a bloody bunch of visitors. my black belt, dave ginsberg, came out from boston, ran an amazing seminar at NYU. Christian Graugart from Denmark came through. I’ll be posting the videos of me getting me arse whooped so that you can enjoy. Ronin Athletics, my gym has been doing amazingly well in competition. if you’re in NYC and looking for a jits/mma school, you should definitely check us out. any questions, you can ask me or ask Christian Montes, our instructor, who’s hella open, hella inviting and a goddamn good teacher.
Christian Graugart’s dope jits/mma blog
now… videos of me getting whooped and being demonstrated upon…
at the beginning.
vinh as a dummy
peace and love for now.
hit you up soon with more updates.
happy turkey day. eat well. drink merry.
Tags: jits, poetry, thanksgiving