Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4RysJspGE4 Starts at: 02:00:00 (jump to 02:00:00)
David Idemudia — Original Spoken Word Poems on ADHD and Mental Illness
[02:00:00] Can someone tell if she’s coming? [02:00:03] No. [02:00:04] I heard a keychain go. [02:00:06] So clap, yeah, there you go. [02:00:09] I don’t know if somebody wouldn’t go. [02:00:11] I think she’s getting her now. [02:00:11] You better not go get her from the bathroom, though. [02:00:14] That’s come down. [02:00:16] There’s also no soap in the bathroom. [02:00:18] There’s no soap in the bathroom. [02:00:19] Talk to the building people. [02:00:21] Talk to complain to him. [02:00:22] Complain to him. [02:00:23] Like this is the perfect time to talk about that. [02:00:25] No soap in the bathroom. [02:00:27] Tell him lower our rent. [02:00:28] Tell him lower our rent. [02:00:31] Look at my studio. [02:00:33] It’s all the way down there to the right. [02:00:34] Oh, you acting like you got a studio now? [02:00:36] I do. [02:00:36] It’s here. [02:00:37] It’s out there. [02:00:38] I’ve been here multiple times. [02:00:40] It’s. [02:00:41] You once showed me your studio. [02:00:42] Oh, facts, sorry. [02:00:43] It’s right out there in the lobby to the right. [02:00:45] That other door that don’t nobody go through, that’s mine. [02:00:49] Is it locked up? [02:00:50] It may not. [02:00:50] She in there, so it may not be locked. [02:00:52] She is in there. [02:00:52] No. [02:00:53] She not in there? [02:00:54] She’s not in there. [02:00:55] She’s. [02:00:56] All right, look. [02:00:56] Hold on, let me check if she in the resource room. [02:00:58] Yeah, yeah, yeah. [02:00:59] It’s like, do a dance or something. [02:01:01] Do a dance. [02:01:02] Tell a story. [02:01:04] I would like to thank all y’all for coming out here. [02:01:06] This is such a great event. [02:01:08] And yes, give it up for yourselves. [02:01:10] We could not do this without y’all. [02:01:13] I definitely was not doing a dance. [02:01:14] Fuck that. [02:01:15] No. [02:01:17] But we like, but we do thank all y’all for coming out here [02:01:20] and being brave enough to tell y’all stories and shit. [02:01:23] Like, that is powerful that y’all are feel comfortable enough [02:01:26] to talk to people that you may not even know. [02:01:30] And combo is live stream, so it’s a lot of people [02:01:32] you may not know that see it. [02:01:33] So like, you’re brave enough to come up here. [02:01:35] And that is dope as shit. [02:01:36] So everybody that’s on this list, [02:01:39] please give it up for yourselves. [02:01:40] And everybody, give it up for them. [02:01:42] Yeah. [02:01:45] We did not find her. [02:01:47] We can’t wait all night for your wife, but I’m a… [02:01:50] I be… [02:01:52] These are the same problems I be having. [02:01:55] This is why I be late everywhere. [02:01:57] She not in. [02:01:58] Liar. [02:01:59] And in Spanish, mentirosa. [02:02:02] Come on, man, you lying. [02:02:03] That’s why you’re late everywhere? [02:02:05] And you’re gonna put that out in public? [02:02:06] Yup, yup. [02:02:07] As long as she not in here, that’s what I said. [02:02:09] Okay, okay. [02:02:10] When she come in here, I say different. [02:02:12] Somebody’s calling her right now. [02:02:14] Okay. [02:02:15] Wow. [02:02:19] All right, I’m gonna share a poem that I wrote real quick. [02:02:23] This is Six Years in the Making. [02:02:25] Oh, yeah. [02:02:26] Woof, woof. [02:02:28] It’s that one, it’s that one. [02:02:32] Attention deficit disorder. [02:02:35] A to the DD. [02:02:39] It’s funny how people think it’s all about being distracted by squirrels. [02:02:44] But you’ll learn losing your phone wallet and keys four to five times a week, [02:02:50] it’s a personalized hell, you’ll see. [02:02:54] Or when your boss has specific and important instructions that end up being [02:02:59] more than three steps and all you can do is say, yep, yep, yep, I got it. [02:03:04] But you look her directly into the eye, the left eye, and you think to yourself, [02:03:09] I wonder if I ate all the Hot Pockets last night. [02:03:13] I mean, I’m not even hungry like that, but I just, I don’t feel like I had two Hot Pockets. [02:03:22] Anyways, you leave the room and you swear you heard words. [02:03:27] You swear you heard her say words. [02:03:29] But all that comes to mind is, my money don’t jiggle, jiggle, it folds. [02:03:34] I’d like to see a wiggle, wiggle, for sure. [02:03:39] So you decide, you’re just gonna wing it. [02:03:42] Good luck with that. [02:03:45] A to the DD. [02:03:46] After five straight hours of watching YouTube videos, [02:03:49] you realize you could be doing something more important with your life. [02:03:52] Like two more hours on Instagram. [02:03:57] Or when you have a to-do list the size of kingdom come, [02:04:00] and you easily become distracted by searching, can germs catch germs? [02:04:05] Or who would win in a fight between [02:04:08] a taco and a grilled cheese sandwich? [02:04:13] Or, everyone can relate to this, [02:04:15] how can I get paid more without actually working? [02:04:21] A to the DD. [02:04:23] How the fine details are not as important as figuring out the reason Netflix canceled Raising Dion [02:04:30] after three straight years of saying they will be back. [02:04:36] Three straight years. [02:04:38] Or how optimistic you are to start the five new projects you learned on TikTok. [02:04:45] Let me, hear me out. [02:04:49] What if we like, petition Michael B. Jordan to get the show Raising Dion back and just, [02:04:57] it’s a good show, it’s for the culture, people, I prompt. [02:05:02] Okay, next up. [02:05:04] A to the DD. [02:05:06] ADHD. [02:05:07] ADHD’s less energetic brother that never got as much attention as HD [02:05:11] because doing back flips in the living room and crashing into the glass table wasn’t an option. [02:05:16] Because, you know, when you’ve been on page one for the same book for the last three days, [02:05:24] just keep jumping the lines. [02:05:28] A to the DD. [02:05:30] Are my cups my cake? [02:05:31] I never had a homework assignment that wasn’t turned in late. [02:05:34] I live in a glorious sense of disorganized chaos, [02:05:36] and I resigned to my fate. [02:05:38] So I accept the A through the D. [02:05:40] Because without it, there is no optimism, you see. [02:05:43] I become immaculate in anything that is impromptu. [02:05:46] You give me a mic and a stage and I just might surprise you. [02:05:50] So you can go ahead and drop the last D for disorder. [02:05:54] Because this is me. [02:05:57] This is me. [02:06:00] But I mean, seriously though, what if we got a collection plate going and [02:06:04] somebody reach out to Michael B just for like, let’s bring this show back. [02:06:08] Because two seasons and out just doesn’t sit well with my spirit. [02:06:12] I don’t know about y’all, but like, damn. [02:06:14] We out like that? [02:06:16] Full of culture. [02:06:22] Jasmine! [02:06:29] You’re lying. [02:06:30] She’s hiding. [02:06:31] Finding. [02:06:32] It’s not a witch hunt. [02:06:34] I still got time, bro. [02:06:36] Yeah, believe it or not. [02:06:38] I got a quick one. [02:06:41] It’s called Spoken Unheard Words. [02:06:43] And I know that a lot of people… [02:06:47] Do you guys want to hear it? [02:06:48] Yes or no? [02:06:49] Okay, good. [02:06:50] I’ll be quick. [02:06:52] Fight in a battle that no one else can see. [02:06:55] It’s like drowning in an ocean without the sea. [02:06:58] Or like living in a body without the me. [02:07:01] Using every last ounce of energy to lift my head. [02:07:03] A body starving and feeling left for dead. [02:07:07] The stains of the stigma are so deep. [02:07:09] Praying to the Lord God above or anything for my soul to keep. [02:07:13] I screech. [02:07:14] I yell. [02:07:15] I yeet. [02:07:16] The mouth opens and nothing comes out as if I cannot eat. [02:07:20] The silence is so loud. [02:07:24] I speak. [02:07:25] I spoke. [02:07:26] I used every word mom would have been proud. [02:07:28] And still nothing. [02:07:30] And still nothing. [02:07:32] He. [02:07:34] She. [02:07:35] They. [02:07:36] Me. [02:07:37] We. [02:07:38] Are all crying and trying to say something. [02:07:41] And still nothing. [02:07:42] And still nothing. [02:07:43] Thank you. [02:07:44] Give it up for David one more time, y’all. [02:07:45] Yeah. [02:07:46] She gonna pop back up later. [02:07:47] We gonna save it for later. [02:07:48] We surprising later. [02:07:49] God bless.