Randall's live performance of JUMP! - May 2013

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Completing the series of videos Alex Scott and I produced last year when I was still trying to sell you my album, this video was taken at Slamalamadingdong Poetry Slam (the same gig where a few of the live poems on the final album were recorded).



(if you are not seeing a playable video window CLICK HERE for a direct link to the YouTube video

If you want to sing-a-long with Randall, (or just can't understand what I'm muttering my way through) the poem itself follows this post.


















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JUMP!

I can tread water

like there is even a grace to it

I can breathe under water

…at least,

I try to now and then

never did learn to dive you know

all I can do is jump

a feet first drop down crash

to resurface salty

burning throat and nostrils

but I’ll be smiling

because I enjoyed falling

that leap and grasp for air

that rush of empty in the updraught

and I seem to just

- hang -

in space for some moments

before the body of water moves on me

rushing up impossibly fast

then-

then my limbs want for feathers

and a gliders grace but oh no

down I go

I’m a projectile launched out to see

with all the grace of a fridge trying to fly

failing, falling, closing on the water

until I crash piercing through

with a huge splash

my contact here was a flat-on-the-back bomb

shattering torpedo punch

going too deep to stay in control

and swim

coughing I come up to a bubbly hiss

with a huge air pocket in my pants

sting of that slap already searing my skin

…owww

but like I said above

before we jumped off into this

no matter the belly whacker smack

that comes after the jump

I still enjoyed

falling for you

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-Peace

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