Thursday, July 31, 2008

Team Tucson 2-0 Part 3

Sunday night we had a show at the grill, but that was rather unremarkable.  So I will waste no time talking about it, and move on to Tuesday's event.

Tuesday night at the UA poetry center the Tucson Slam went head to head with a group of academic poets from the University of Arizona.  When performing our own original work we won, but it was in the bonus rounds that they really shined.  There was a cover poem, where each team chose a poet to recite a work of classical poetry.  Our representative had a finger puppet of the poet she was performing.  Surely that would ensure our victory, but they had this really long poem that was performed beautifully.


Their was also a round where we had to give them a copy of one of our poems and they had to read it.  They handed us this poem that had these gigantic variants in font size.  Everything from inches high, to millimeters small, the poem just looked imposing.  But our team member rocked it.


We handed the all male team a poem entitled "Redfoot Woman"  an identity piece about female sexuality, and sexuality in general.  The refrain of the poem is "I am redfoot woman"  But the person they chose to do it, did this incredibly silly rendition, and they truly deserved that win.


Then came the final round.  We had been told at the beginning that the final round would be a limerick round and we were to write them about the other team.


We had this amazing limerick about the guy that read Redfoot woman.  Their was some random thing about oral sex.  We won all was well, and we made some decent money too.


Now all we have left is one practice, and then Nationals.  I plan on blogging through Nationals so stay tuned.


1 comment:

Robert said...

Hey Faldwin;

Just a note to tell you how much I enjoyed Team Tucson's performance at last Thursday's Smackdown!

I've even done a write up about it on my own blog if you're interested. It's located at http://tucsonliving.blogspot.com/

Good luck in the finals!

- Robert