2015-12-21
1 小时 0 分钟With ghosts in my periphery, I keep my focus ahead born hopeless the brokest fighting swarms of locusts in bed see, I wrote this one dead and it resuscitated my breath in hopes I spit it loud enough to resonate in your chest my girls telling me to quit spitting about demons and blood I said, you just remain my angel hush my screaming with love I'm feening for drugs in the form of over three minute hugs that suffocate till I'm exhaling crows and breathing in doves.
When most people think about poets, we think of, you know, sort of people who are struggling to get by, scribbling notes madly on pieces of paper, working three different jobs.
You may even have sort of like the old beat generation view of wraparound shades and a hat turned backwards.
Today's guest, Sekou Andrews, paints a very different picture of a modern day poet.
Somebody who came out of a world where he was obsessed with music and hip hop and lyrics, and one day took the stage and realized that there was a different way to share what was on his mind, his ideas, his stories.
And this started a really powerful deep dive into poetry.
But he didn't just stop there.
He decided that poetry needed to grace the larger stages, the larger stages of keynotes in business and life.
And he wanted to turn it into a really substantial way to earn a living and make a really big difference.
We explored that journey and listened to some really powerful words in this week's conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields.
This is good Life project.
So we're hanging out in New York City right now, and I was trying to remember where we first met.
And I think it was.
I don't know if you remember, but I think it was.
We were both speaking at this kind of small impromptu gig in a trailer in Vegas.
Superhero you, that's what it was.
Superhero you.
Yeah.
And, like, you took the stage there, and my mind melted the moment you opened the ground.