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Meet the Poet Babies - Tucker
I remember one day a work buddy wanted me to help with this build a house charity over the weekend, but I told him no way do I leave the house during football season. I did show him all the colored bracelets I wear so he could see that I’m all like, one world. I told him he should get a bunch because the chicks really dig them, they only cost a buck each and they last all year! But looking back, it seems like there was nothing to my life except what I saw on tv. I should have gotten out and experienced more of all that was around me. I should have made an effort to make things better and help others. Now that I have a second chance as one of the Poet Babies, I will teach people to be active and involved in the world.
Poem Flash - Rhyming Bits of Light From TuckerThe Open Oyster Hello? Hello? Can you hear me now? With an iPod and cell phone stuffed in each ear No poodles, no giggles, no owl’s hoots You can’t live in a shell and become a pearl
Color + You = Help Your wrist is yellow, pink, black and blue Curing disease and cleaning the air Why not a bake sale, a letter, or hospital visit? So keep buying those bands but never forget
Unplug, Hear the World – Ok, so this is like our first big campaign, and I’m sort of nervous, but we really want you to join in because it’s so totally important. Like I said, I was plugged into my iPod 24/7: going to work, at work, at the store, hiking, everywhere. I’d weave around people while I rocked out. Even when the battery died, I’d stay plugged in so people wouldn’t bug me. At home for the holidays, I’d keep the headphones in until we sat down for dinner, but I’d leave them hanging around my neck for easy access when it got boring. No matter where I was I always figured if something important happened someone would poke me. But I wonder now what I missed by always being in my own pod. Sure it’s obvious that I should have talked to and really gotten to know my own family, or felt the quiet and peace of a nature trail. But it’s the lost things that aren’t obvious that haunt me, those unexpected moments that could have opened up a new world to me, that could have introduced me to a person or place I never saw in my routine. I wonder if some stranger walking next to me fell down and I kept walking away because I didn’t hear. I know you want a good story to learn from, like how I could’ve met my soul mate, but I just don’t know one. Because even now I don’t know what I missed, and that’s the real lesson. So I’m not saying trash your iPod – Poet Babies love music – but you can’t keep plugging up your ears with those headphones. You need to expose your self to the random stuff of life so that you can grow beyond who you are. You need to listen for when others need help so you can help them. You need to unplug, and hear the world. |
Dude! I was so cool so I thought my life was so cool. I totally rocked on the PlayStation and had the best tunes on my iPod, I was so plugged in all the time. Me and my roomies put everything we had into pimping our pad with the big screen, so we never left unless we were hitting the bars. Sure I had to go to a job, but that was just extra chilling time on the high speed internet.
