Friday September 12th, 2008

The exercise:

Def Poetry Jam Friday brings us Heru Ptah's Why.

Mine:

Whenever I watch this performance there is one line that always jumps out at me: "That's bad math!" It made me laugh the first time and it still makes me smile even on my most recent viewing.

Heru pokes a lot of gentle fun at a lot of things that most people take for granted these days and it's a great reminder that looking at the everyday from a different viewpoint can bring new insights. If we all did this more often, either when facing problems or the mundane, I suspect our lives would get a lot more interesting.

I can't find any other performances by Heru on YouTube, but I did find some of his poetry.