Indiana


If you come from this land
You are automatically grounded

This place we were raised in
Cultivated our imaginations
Brought our intuition into fruition

Yet she worries me
We eat her habitats so hurriedly

And if you must make a comparison
Are you more a Tecumseh
Or a Henry Harrison?

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This will be part of a cover story in a local weekly paper here in Indianapolis called intake (www.intakeweekly.com) where five writers were asked to answer the question "What is Indiana?" in twenty to fifty words (short!). Our words were then sent to different graphic design firms here in town, where they will do full page layouts of the work to be published. I won't get to see it 'til it hits the stands on Nov. 30th, but I'll give a direct link in this post.



Now it's your turn. Write about your state in fifty words or less.
Put the state's (or province or whatever they got where you're at) in the subject line. Let's see how many places we can get.

Peace.

~Toe

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"Pimping ain't art...but grabbing guns is?!"
(c) Menphyel

"I've come to realise that I never loved Hip-Hop as a whole,
just a particular era that happened at the same time as
I was actively checking actively for new music."

Yet she worries me
We eat her habitats so hurriedly

And if you must make a comparison
Are you more a Tecumseh
Or a Henry Harrison?

nicely done Toe. I love how you broke up the middle into two lines only. Peace~

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are you living to leave?
are you dying to stay?© The Jazzyfatnastees

la simplicite a son mieux...

descriptive and imaginative, but always ending in the statesman's question---

Congratulations!

http://worthwatering.blogspot.com
Can it be I stayed away too long?/
Did I leave your mind when I was gone?/
It's not my thing trying to get back/
But this time let me tell you where I'm at-- Jackson Five

So the story came out and it was a cover story, and it actually turned out pretty dope. Has a circulation of 75,000-100,000.

I'm going to contact the designer, Amy Mcadams, and try to do a collaborative illustrated poetry book project with her. If you follow the www.intakeweekly.com link, for the next week you can find the work in one of the three stories scrolling on that main box. It's the one with the pic of the hands typing. The resolution is kind of booty, but you can zoom.

Peace.

INtakeWeekly showcased you guys nicely.

Good Luck on your "Hip Hop Poetry Book" -- *Jam On It* --

A guitar string vibrating, a measure of my soul, a breech in the silence --
I've always felt like words come through me & I write them down... they have no master --- gsquared ♥

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/photosynthesis_music.htm