Phil Kaye - Suburbia
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Phil Kaye, performing at Inner City Arts in Los Angeles, CA.
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Watching him perform is such an experience, it's something you don't just watch and listen to but you feel. His work is so beautiful.
"but at least its air" goddam I'm stunned
The city getting surgery part was amazing. I was blown away.
How on Earth does he write this well? It's a goddamn story.
I know they're not related by has anyone else noticed that Sara and Phil speak the same way?
i noticed that! they've been best friends for a long time so i guess they picked up on each other's mannerisms.
they've also written and performed a lot together in the past so that's probably led to the similarities too!
i've noticed that many spoken word poets sound the same in the way they present their poems. It kind of bothers me.... but I guess it's from watching each other perform
I guess I'm the only one here who thinks that Phil speaks completely different with Sarah...
They're best friends so I guess they practice together and end up sounding similar
I love this man's art so much. I feel a strong emotional reaction every time I see him preform without fail.
"smoke makes you choke, but at least it is air"
His work makes me feel alive.
(*SQUEALS* because its Phil) I knew I would experience a masterpiece even before hitting play. Phil, Thank you.
I melt like chocolate on a sunny day everytime I hear his voice.
The way he crafts a story is spectacular I can't get enough.
Love his poems, but he reminds me so much of his friend and fellow spoken word poet Sarah Kay so much.
dudes why can't we all just try our best to take care of our mother nature in every little possible way we can? it just saddens me bc i see people supporting the "loving our environment" thing but only a few actually do their very best to support it through their actions.
Oh I just love him
Is it just me.....or is this shit amazing
This shit IS amazing
I'm pretty sure I've said before, even the way he moves is a performance. He could make anything interesting by the way he moves as he talks. ^.^
Oh god. Why am I so late! How can someone be so perfect with everything. The poem, the narration, the expression, the words left chills down my spine.
most of the time can't digest a 3 minute poem but I love the consistent through line of this one
I get chills
lyrics
I love this place.
The people, the community,
I mean, the sense of stability,
I mean, this place is... amazing.
This place is amazing.
I mean this place is a maze, is a maze, is a maze
The law of conservation
Says that energy cannot be created nor destroyed
Only transformed, from one state to another.
1945
Albert Einstein, a man of laws, creates the atomic bomb.
A hundred thousand Japanese houses implode,
And American suburbia explodes.
1970
Read the paper
We are choking, the city
The city, she has been smoking.
There is her body,
Wrinkled. Cracking. Loose.
Out there on the fringe, there is plenty.
Space so empty you can stretch your arms out
Inside of her thick, overgrown,
That’s how you know she is a virgin.
1970
This is the 20th century
We knew we’d reach the pacific eventually
This is just our new manifest destiny
By this time,
The number of Americans living in suburbia has exploded by 300%.
Locusts, hocus, pocus
Poof! Smoke
Makes you choke
But at least
It is air
[breath]
City.
City.
[slap slap :( ]
City wakes up mid-surgery.
The suitcase of her chest ripped open
Her skyscraper insides laid down sideways,
She calls,
“Nurse! Bring me more anesthesia,
I was never truly sleeping
Just, for a moment, American dreaming.”
The nurse, with a rag to our face,
[breath] “Breathe,” [breath] “breathe,” [breath]
“Everyone is happy,” [breath]
“Our little American sequel,” [breath]
“Regal,” [breath]
“Separate,” [breath]
“Equal,” [breath]...
...”The thing about
Weeds, Mr. Kennedy,
Is their penchant for multiplying.
You let just one move into your community,
And sooner or later you’ll find one growing
In your very own backyard.
Well then, there goes the neighborhood.”
There goes the neighborhood.
Go, go farther,
City on a sill
Oops! Had a little spill
Looked like an accident,
Wouldn’t quite call it kill,
Farther, farther
Our little mazes, mousetraps, cul-de-sacs,
This house is amazing!
This house is amazing!
This house is amazing!
This house is amazing!
This house is amazing!
Farther, farther, father
Raised me, grazed me,
Open-flamed me, open-ranged me
We are not all the same,
Are we? Are we?
Run eat water food fence!
Run eat water food fence!
[breath] Breathe,
[breath] Breathe.
[breath] Everyone is happy.
[breath] You are only making this more difficult
For yourself.
oh,this is pure talent!
Suburbia is a viable option for the working class. At least, it was. Many can't afford it anymore. It was a chance to have a little safety & privacy, away from urban crowding.
After WW2, people who'd never had an opportunity to own the place they lived found affordable mortgages there. Their kids could play & grow, out of danger. That's the most many working class people could hope for.
They aren't asleep or numb. There's just not much infrastructure for culture built in to these artificial "communities."
Suburban areas are, actually, very difficult places to live, as a result of this.
And the erosion of the middle & working classes has only applied more pressure.
Some after WW2 weren't allowed to move. It was called redlining
damn right when youtube's algorithm suggested this piece, i interpreted it as a piece for Amazonia.
I love discover these things from years ago
Amazing.
Lovely
May I please be with thou?
i feel like this need a ton of analysis to get all phil meant and i don't know how to:0
anyone can give some guidance? thanks!
brid101286 I feel the same way. Gave me the same impression of the wasteland that is used to describe The Valley of the Ashes in The Great Gatsby. Following the white pickett fence lifestyle, the american dream, not being the perfect idyllic picture. Suburbs being the urban sprawl of the overpopulated and polluting city.
Theres a lot in there I feel I dont understand as fully as my heart wants me to :/
Woah...
♡
Wow.
hobo johnson who
respirar
Wat is suburbia? A place?
It's been a year but it's the suburbs
Now watch DETROIT die without help. HELP!