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Taylor Mali is awesome. He makes his living primarily as a radio voice, mostly doing commericials, but the pay allows him the time to make his living as a spoken word poet. He has (I don't know how many) more than once been a member of the New York Slam team and won awards in the individuals competition too. (You have to be on a team to participate in the individuals competition.) I saw him once when he was a guest speaker/performer at Wayne State. He seems a very nice guy, though, he didn't need a microphone. (Spook, he's like a Robert-type person: he was born with a conal larynx or something--that man is naturally amplified.) My favorite of his poems is:

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My two favorite lines from that:

"I decide to bite my tongue instead of his."

"I make them show all their work in math but hide it on their final draft in English."

You can guess mine: "I make them write 'definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful, definitely beautiful,' so that they will never misspell either word again," comes in right behind, "I can make a 'C+' feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor and an 'A-' feel like a slap in the face--don't waste my time with anything less than your best."

More Mali, another one of my faves:

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