Spoken Word Poet/SLAM poet (4/15)

There was another spoken word poet who came in the past which was my first time to see that type of a performance. Now that I have seen another poet in a similar category, I can compare the two. The last man spoke more about social issues and some of the music industry today while the recent poet used humor as a basis for most of his pieces. There were only two poems that I can recall which were more serious. One of them sounded very personal because it was about a failed relationship he had with a past girlfriend who did not feel the same for him as he felt for her. Many of the metaphors he used were ones that I would never think about using in my writing which made it so interesting to listen to. He used his size and food for a majority of his humor which made me think about our culture. Because the media portrays obesity as something to make fun of, people are used to laughing at “fat jokes” or obese people. The poet used his weight to make the audience laugh most of the time. We feel like an outcast if we do not laugh with society, so we naturally join the audience. This is also why we feel the need to make fun of ourselves. If we describe ourselves as perfect, we will be an outcast. Americans feel the needs to discuss self-issues to fit in with the rest of the imperfect crowds who do not fit society’s standards usually created by the media.