Slam+Poetry

[|For the Life of Me] media type="youtube" key="R86P6O3n50M" height="315" width="420" I choose this poem because it is so emotional. throughout the reading I felt bittersweet. It is funny and sad. It focuses on his wife and her suicide. Taylor Mali weaves through the memories of their relationship. About Scrabble and Characters we all play. There are quite a few beautiful literary devices, like "my breath arrived each day with the mail" a metaphor which means every day he anticipated the mail, he held his breath as he waited and looked for a suicide note. Repetition is also evident, for example, Taylor Mali starts the poem with the poem talking about the man he played when he wooed her and at the end goes back to it, but with deeper meaning because of the context. I also really like the way Taylor Mali delivers his poem. He makes it flow and helps the listener feel empathetic. My favorite part of the poem is when he begins to talk about arguing about who would die first, specifically the way he says "Hello? Ciggerettes!". All in all i think I would say this poem is pretty fantastic.