The second time I saw you, my heart fell. Jeffrey McDaniel Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. Jeffrey McDaniel tags: devotion, fidelity, love, obsession 748 likes Like The first time I saw you, my heart fell. Jeffrey McDaniels terse A Quiet World supposes a place where we can only speak. Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. The second time I read was a year ago, when the Slam came back from its COVID-19 hibernation. I suggest hot beverages, an antipasto platter, and no, Im not doing. “WHAT are you able to build with your blocks?!?” I hissed, my eyes angrily darting from face to face, challenging them to hoot me down. Jeffrey is preceded in death by his father, Roland M. sister Shavet Winters, and brothers, Fernandos McDaniel Jr., and Jeffrey McDaniel. But I did it in that angry, confrontational, Slam style: Jeffrey Richard McDaniel CHARLESTON - Jeffrey Richard McDaniel entered into eternal rest. 1 dictum for writers: “Be Who You Are,” and began with a recitation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Block City,” a poem I loved as a child. I also know authenticity is key, and while my authentic self - white, male, Jewish, late middle-aged, lower-upper-middle class noodnik - has undergone a devaluation in the cultural market in recent years, you still have to dance with who brung ya. When Marc Kelly Smith, who founded the Slam in 1984, first asked me to be a featured speaker, his idea was for me to read my columns as poetry.
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