America, by Allen Ginsberg

This is one of my favourite poems

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[poetxyz]

One of my faves too. Not too bad, but you did mess up a few too many lines. Poetry is very fragile and specific.

[1023esquimaltrd]

@poetxyz Poetry is entirley subjective, you are fragile and specific, those are great traits.

[MsCaptainbastard]

Please don't do this again,

This poem doesn't need your 'acting' skills

[1023esquimaltrd]

@MsCaptainbastard thank you for noticing what an actor I am. I tried to get Ginsberg to read it, but he died. Your right, I was acting like I was reciting poetry, you have a very keen sense of deduction. have you ever thought of opening a detective agency? You are clearly an intellectual of "inconceivable" proportion. if you hadn't told me not to, I may have just kept recording this one same poem over, and over again. I don't think I will do it a second time. Thanks,

[lkasjfh]

your so shit.

[1023esquimaltrd]

@lkasjfh NAILED IT!!!

[zerocoolct]

This man is acting the poem. When ginsberg read it ginsberg really felt it. Thats the difference. He has to read the poem off cam and try to understand what its about, that way he'll come across as less of a cheap act or mimic

anyway he misses out a number of lines and words.

good effort though.

[rocketqueenz]

@mockingbird4437 Not fake, I think he just needs to update his version of America....2011 style.

[DevinGoesBARKx31]

MMMM This is horrible interpretation.

[Xesumaidem]

This man took the time to learn a poem and read it b/c he likes it. Why dislike someone for that? At least he has the courage to do so.

This man is obviously a reader. Don't hate readers. Fascists generally hate readers. America needs more readers, and the world over for that matter...

[slllector]

I like it. Ignore the haters.

[HufflepuffTheGreat]

@zerocoolct Yeah. In order to read poetry well one has to in some ways be a poet. You have to connect with what you're saying, rather than just relying on backgroud music, pot, and alcohol to do the trick. You've gotta feel something stabbing you when you read this shit, not just act it out in beatnik clothing and expect people to feel moved.

[SchlafAroundTheBend]

There's nothing wrong in acting a poem, especially since he's in front of a camera..he would have been fake had he tried to read it like Ginsberg, he did a personal reading and that can hardly be fake. Plus, I believe that this poem has such a colloquial tone that it's hard not to "act" as if you were talking to or arguing with someone. I think he got the beat of it towards the end, it was fun, I enjoyed it

[xBabydicKx]

you fucking suck. you make ginsberg look straight.