slam practice

the topic
there is only one topic
that springs from the many
the one thing that there is
the tao, this moment,
the great way

what is it?

the spirit of sound
(make three distinctly different noises)

If I could, and now I can
I would expose you to the deafening silence of what is.
Put you in a four minute and thirty-one second prison, or rather Cage.
Listen to the noise of what surrounds you... and then say something.

Come on, say something
Say Anything!
(wait for sounds)

Is the sound that comes out of my mouth
that you hear right now
pushing air
pushing waves of invisible sea into the shores of your ears
when it leaves my mouth
is it still my sound?
when it blends with the many sounds, whose sound is it then?
where did it come from?

(use audience to make communal sound)