12-07-2014, 12:32 AM
It's a great poem. I wouldn't call this a slam poem, because those are written on the spot kinda like rapping (at least in my days they were) and this seems very prepared beforehand so perhaps it is just spoken poetry. In that case...I'm with you on the performance itself. If she is trying to drive home a certain point, I would have liked her to save that shaky, breathless read until the end, until it had built to a zenith. But that's just me.