SARAH KAY performs "Brother"

[Music] girlfriend drinks roll [Music] so I'm home I'm home on spring break right now which means that I hadn't done laundry for like four weeks and so I just brought it all home so I didn't have any clothes to wear so I just rated my little brother's closet and then and yeah sort of how I roll in general um whenever someone's like oh you look really nice today I'm like really cuz it's all my 16 year old brothers clothing so this is that I wrote this poem for him brother you jaywalked you're way out of the womb I would recognize you anywhere from the hiccup in your swagger tell me where in the world did you find all that thunder there have never been any seat belts on your side of the car you have always known the better magic tricks you told me once that I was just the first draft and I'm inclined to believe you but you came with a lot more pieces to assemble and mom and dad never got the manual your compass always points north but it's a bit of a crapshoot as to whether or not you'll ever really walk in that direction and I like that it keeps people on their toes in the carousel ride of your life the merry-go-round ponies are all narwhals their horns points straight up the day they build you a constellation it will be the entire F train spread across the Milky Way you will be a satellite who dips in and out of every single car the minute it comes to a stop pissing off everybody on the subway platform and kicking up star dust in your wake you can solve a Law & Order before the first commercial break once when you were 7 you came into the kitchen and asked mom does my name begin with the letter P because P is the 16th letter of the alphabet and I was born on June 16th and a Sarah Jo Sarah because s is the 19th letter and she was born on the 19th day of June and when mom said no you nodded your head and left the kitchen mumbling to yourself okay just salt and pepper then you are favorite stick of dynamite you are the opposite of a rubberband there are so many things I would tell you if I thought that you would listen and so many more you tell me if you believed I would understand I hope you know you were never meant to wear this shadow in fact I'm the one who always steals your shoes but is that my sweatshirt you're wearing it's okay you can keep it in fact it really does look better on you [Music] you

Channel: speakeasynyc

Views: 462,861

Keywords: Sarah Kay, Spoken Word, Bowery Poetry Club

Id: Zl6P1ym5WvE

Length: 3min 11sec (191 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 25 2009