Deaf Comedy

The other day i went with a friend to a comedy show at Sierra College where a guy named Keith Wann performed. He is a CODA (Child of deaf parents), and he does a stand-up comedy show using ASL. It was pretty funny. I'm actually going to be taking ASL next semester because i have to have three semesters of a foreign language, so that should be interesting.

Here's Keith Wann:

More poetry!

The following poetry is copyrighted by me-Mark!

So don't, er, take em, and er, use em as yer own ya hear!
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"I am a poet, and i am aware of that fact."

The Dying Blind Man

The dying blind man, deaf and dumb;
Never heard the blue birds singing,
He never really saw the sun.

All his days, couldn't see or hear.
Unafraid, he is, of leaving,
For he was never fully here.

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Haiku

"Someone come and pick
Me, for i cannot pick my
Self," the flower cried.

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Soft as the sound of
Sweeping through wet leaves in the
Midst of autumn mist

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Too bad for heaven
And too good for hell; i guess

I'll just come back here
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In pang of pleasure,
Measure not plight upon plight;
Winter comes for all

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...more Haiku to come!

Some Wise Words

Some words from the wise Manly P Hall
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"All tradition begins by inspiring, and ends by enslaving."

"As soon as he has decided for himself, he begins to decide for others. And the moment he decides for others, his culture begins to die. The moment he denies to another the right he demands for himself, he begins to lock and enslave."

"You can never accept a new idea if you are satisfied with the one you have. If you want to grow, you have got to give up something. If you want to proceed, the past must die. If you want to be more than you are, something that is less must perish along the way."

"The soul.. is the part of man which will never let him remain as he is today."

sad.

I am a rock. I am an i-i-island!