The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time
By Beau Sia
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Beau Sia swings gravity like a bat (aluminum, whiffle ball, and fruit). I hope to experience everything in this life, but if I leave this world before I get to hang glide the high points, it won't matter... I read Beau Sia. -Buddy Wakefield, "Live for a Living"
Beau Sia mixes serious commentary, outrageous theatrics, and downright outrage into a potent, entertaining, and memorable cocktail. He is both the spoonful of sugar and the medicine, and he goes down in the most delightful way. - Taylor Mali, "Last Time As We Areâ€
Beau Sia has forged a poetic voice unlike any other-- a 7th level hybrid of deep-sea-mind-diving and hip-hop-spelunking and time-travel-reporting that is once riveting, humbling and inspiring; a firey worship of the life you have to live. - Mindy Nettifee, "Rise of the Trust Fallâ€
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beau Sia's back with another great poetry collection. His first book, A Night Without Armor II: The Revenge, was funny and perverted. This book is not quite the same. There are no dick jokes in this book. Okay, maybe one dick joke. But not very many. He still writes about sex, but in a way that suggests he's done some reading on feminist rhetoric. There are a lot of political poems about race, about the family unit, about looking back at your past self. Sia has clearly matured as a writer, and it shows in his work. His style is less sparse than before; he uses repetition and does a few neat artistic things with line breaks. I enjoyed this book. My attention did start to wane after a while, and I got bored by the last few pages which is why I gave it four stars instead of fine. Still, this is a good book, and I recommend everyone to go out and buy a copy because this guy knows how to write.
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The Undisputed Greatest Writer of All Time - Beau Sia
Author
POOP IT OUT NOW
LETT ER TO A YOUNG POET
re-imagine your definition of results.
live a full life.
keep working on this concept forever.
let a full life be informed by all,
defined only by you.
get to the answer by asking the questions
those around you
may never believe exist.
titles only have the power you give them.
proving yourself to the external will exhaust you.
you will lose yourself in fixed identity.
you have as much writing in you
as you do. listen
for what your words are showing you.
reject the parts of praise
that will bind you.
reject the criticism intended to hold you down.
the plan is greater than any one of us.
learn to respond to the harm
in others’ perceptions
with more honest mirrors.
your craft has depths
you will not reach the limits of.
it will live in you
after hands have stopped sequencing.
how you distill evolves.
give yourself patience to savor.
the silences offer more than quiet.
touch what all this work is for.
UNLOAD
BANG.
is the sound of neglect
matured into rage.
BANG.
deafens the ears of those
unwilling to listen.
BANG.
begs to ring the alarm
that can’t be snoozed.
BANG.
it begins before the aftermath
of smoke.
BANG.
a boy who has only seen touch,
but never felt it.
BANG.
the daughter who’s been hugged
too long by abuse.
BANG.
babies burning in silence,
until innocence drowns in the ash,
then BANG,
just like the movies.
busy parents working too hard
to explain special effects.
BANG, you get it already. BANG.
‘cuz there’s been another shooting,
and BANG, the poet wants the metaphor, BANG,
to get your attention,
because BANG,
there’s no re-start on this video game.
BANG.
you already saw it coming,
but you didn’t do shit,
just sat there, while BANG.
the ones we call freaks
ease our accountability.
all media gets placed in a vacuum
of blame.
our animal grows strong
when fed on what distracts our humanity.
BANG.
this is not gun politics.
war is a convenient way to ignore the work.
it takes a village to raise a monster.
BANG.
a billion uncharted moments
before the darkness
filled with stars.
a billion unreported experiences
before the child
throws the fit
that becomes the clip
we stay fixed on,
like children gazing at fireworks.
explosions made both message
and meaning.
BANG.
listen for more
than the loudest sound in a room.
BANG.
weapons will evolve
while we deny their origin.
weapons will melt
once we’ve reverse engineered our hate.
weapons will become archaic
with choices more fitting to our unique design.
BANG.
make time for others’ hurt
before it turns poison.
BANG.
remember the child within
before you react
from the child within.
BANG.
let your pain be a guide
and not a source.
BANG.
teach yourself how fruitless
the zero sum game.
BANG.
teach your daughters
their will is not a prison.
BANG.
teach your sons
their want demands context.
BANG.
compassion is greater
than all that may destroy us.
in every breath
an opportunity towards
demise
or thrive.
it’s not in the words,
it lives in what’s between.
( )
HAIKUS TO THE MOON
moon, you could give a
fuck about our wars, yet your
distance moves our blood.
moon, I’ve fucked beneath
your glow and haven’t gotten
nearer to your touch.
moon, you’ve witnessed our
history and ignore its
truths just like we do.
moon, I share you, we
watch your graceful eye, giving
meaning to your rock.
moon, you’re the heaven
I can see, tonight I send
messages