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[2004-02-02 08:48:57 +0000 UTC]
"Christopher Fox Graham"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 59; Deviations: 206; Watchers: 108
Watching: 30; Pageviews: 16544; Comments Made: 64; Friends: 30
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Brian WalkerFavorite movies: Closer
Favorite TV shows: Battlestar Galatica (reimagined), Firefly, Star Trek DS9
Favorite bands / musical artists: Calexico
Favorite books: Slam poetry chapbooks
Favorite games: Poetry slam
Favorite gaming platform: Life
Tools of the Trade: Uniball Signo 207 or Pilot G2 0.7mm, always black ink
# Comments
Comments: 51
Hello Christopher!
this is Shernise! aka, tyler s. 's girlfriend.
saw your link on facebook!
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Thank you! I'll let you know when I share it.
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now's the time for an uninvited suggestion: perhaps you should collect all your haiku poems into a single deviation and number them for separation. my desire to read them all is losing its war with indolence. what do you think?
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Forgive me for adding some of your poetry to my favourites with no comments. When something can be improved, i can offer criticism or words of help, but with your work there is none of that. I can only thank you for writing them, for putting my own thoughts and feelings into your words.
Thank you.
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Silent observer, I am; was wondering if you keep an account with Facebook.
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Cheers.
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What an amazing DD 
Congratulations
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Congratulations on your daily deviation. I've placed a link to it in the sidebar of my journal page.
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I hope you labor in obscurity less as a performing poet than you do as a DA poet, because your popularity here relative to your body of work is completely the fuck out of whack. Congratulations on the DD; hopefully it brings you attention somewhat more commensurate with your abilities. You've got mine now, at any rate.
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I slam regularly in Arizona, have been to the National Poetry Slam on four different teams since 2001, and host a biweekly open mic in Sedona. I've been published a few times in local poetry anthologies. I write far more often than it seems; I only post to DA when I remember to although I should more often.
I do well enough for a small-town slam poet with a full-time job. I'm only 30, so we'll see how my popularity fares when I hit 75.
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wow thanks for fav
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I am DYING to read more of your poetry...I hope I don't annoy you when I say I'm waiting for you to post another one of your jewels.
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your stuff is amazing! i'm deff. going to watch you.
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Calexico, eh? Didn't happen to catch them on their tour with Iron and Wine, did you?
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well that's what assumption and not living in the States'll do. honestly hadn't a clue who you were - you have an impressive career sir. :>
.. not that published writers can't reply to messages as well.
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Sorry about not replying. I'm shy and I have an older view on communication I guess, I prefer face-to-face meetings, so I'm terrible with replying to e-mail, phone calls, and online postings. I have a MySpace account too, and while I post on it, I probably only reply to one out of ten posts. I just feel that culturally there's too much of a need to communicate right now, with the state of the world, an my priorities are more toward people I can see and touch. I wish I had the time to reply to everyone in the electronic world as personally as I do in the flesh world, but it's all rather overwhelming. Additionally, I dislike the phone and instant messages because I can't see one's reactions or face, despite hearing their voice, and in the electronic world, waiting for a reply back is irksome. I actually prefer physical letters, and have a massive collection of postcards that I send out periodically, because their is some intimacy in the emotion of the writer than can be seen in paper and ink
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I can see just what you mean, it's not a problem. but it's funny you should call yourself shy only to say that you prefer face-to-face contact; the brand of shiness I've been victim to is one that has made me even prefer 'non-realtime' communication to personal contact (with all its sociological fears/anxieties/&c that exist dilutedly in cyberia). and written discussion has the advantage of thoroughness, you can sit & consider what you're about to say for longer than you can when speaking with someone. there's also a real shortage of english-language writers where I'm from, so the opportunity for face-to-face discussion hasn't even arisen for me -- hence the next best thing.
intimacy is vital, I agree with you.
keep on truckin' CFG
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Given your location, I can see the appeal of online talk. In the same circumstance, I'd be equally devout.
Sedona, Ariz., is a small town, despite having 4 million tourists a year pass through, so going anywhere means I'll likely see someone I know. I'll make small talk if someone approaches me, but for the most part, I'd rather stay somewhat anonymous, even if I'm in a room where I know everyone's name. So, in that respect, I suppose I'm shy. Strangers I usually avoid unless introduced and acquaintances I speak with if I find them entertaining. With friends, it's as if no one else exists in the room and I'm make a beeline toward them. But, much to the humor of my friends, no one has more than one minute phone conversation with me.
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I guess I wasn't entirely accurate earlier; I'm not shy, I'm self-centeredly pessimistic. I fear contact before it occurs; I assume I'll be thought of as lacking in some way by whomever I'm about to meet or talk to. contact itself, once I can't get out of it, is something I usually enjoy, assuming the person I'm talking to isn't a bozo or a jerk. when I speak with someone agreeable my self-esteem gets a kick of adrenaline. I've sometimes thought of it as a paradox of sorts, but maybe it isn't. sociology can get bizarre.
look at this, we're having a fine discussion and we've never even met!
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i guess these people don't realize you're famous or anything. i've followed your work for a while, and own a copy of one of your books. i just can't believe you submit here, still.
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Let me just add everything you submit to my favourites. Yyyeah...
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... but you don't seem to respond to any messages or comments you get.
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You are one of the greatest poets I have ever come across.
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love to see your gallery bigger - great, great start.
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there can't be words that suit your excelence in provocing imagination and blunt understanding of how the world should be.. and showing the sad state that it is in. i wish all were as honest as you are.. your words are incouraging.
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You've singlehandedly gotten me interested in slam poetry. Very intelligent, great flow, great messages, wordplay, sense of humour, everything....keep it up, man!
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only two deviations, and already you have acheived a daily deviation. i am envious. congratulations
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Wow, you have some great work! I've added you to my watch, but seeing as you haven't been on in 21 weeks, Im don't know how useful that will prove to be. I await more masterpieces.
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errr..i don't really care what u say...but i'ma keep an eye on u, so there!
U
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You are an inredible writer, I'm going to stalk you
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Thank you for "HIT ME RUNNING"
please, continue
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AMAZING work. o.o;
I agree; NEVER stop writing. Your work is incredible.
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Talk about making a grand entrance!
I know I'm thoroughly impressed.
Welcome to DA . . . I hope you have a long and satisfying stay.
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*Runewitch told me to come visit, and all i can say is, it wasnt a waste of my time! amazing...
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HIT ME RUNNING
Donβt sell me funeral plots
on late night television
if the end is already in sight
am I supposed to pull the sheets up to my neck,
count to zero,
smile, and cease?
no
keep your pills, in all their pretty colors:
celebrex, propecia, allegra, lipitor, zanex, viagra
keep them for scrabble
keep your rogaine, your facelifts
keep your death insurance
keep your graveyard reservations
hit me running.
let me go down swinging
make it a sport:
give me a ten-minute head start
and an obstacle course.
place a beautiful girl on the far side of a mine field
and whisper, βshe wants to kiss youβ
target me on my feet
dodging doomsdayβs in slow-mo bullet time
let me duel the grim reaper in a poetry slam
but let me lay where i fall
let the buzzards and coyotes
pick apart my bones
donβt stuff me and sew me up
waste my estate on alcohol for my wake
not formaldehyde
instead of wood for a coffin,
build me a funeral pyre
and set me ablaze like a pagan-warrior-king
sing songs,
roast marshmallows,
get drunk,
and recite your poetry
by the time weβre done
the grim reaper will beg for a vacation
i donβt have to win,
but let me believe I have a chance at immortality
even if the probability is one a billion.
those are good odds
if Iβm the one
those who believe in death will die first
if I believe Iβm going to live forever,
if I believe I can fly
I just might
so from the chickens before me,
sucking in their pot-bellies,
grooming their comb-overs,
Iβll craft wings from their plucked feathers
reach cruising altitude alongside Icarus
but outrace the sun
light doesnβt have the speed to catch me
these lungs wonβt stop breathing,
these cells will break open replacements
this heart will beat out of sheer will
to last longer than timex or twinkies
and endure eternity
just to see how this story ends
and whether
the hero gets the girl
or a bullet to the brain
I will hold onto immortality
by my fingernails and the skin of my teeth
past the all epochs and ages and armageddons
so I can see if the end
begins the beginning all over again
or does the whole thing backwards
or upside down with inverted colors
or just stops
like in the Twilight Zone,
one second before the apocalypse
but my bet is that i
will finally sober up
take my medication
set the alarm
roll over
and turn the television off
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Another very impressive piece of work.
PLEASE, don't ever stop writing . . . your work is magnificent.
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