tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73952483671430873092024-02-06T19:39:46.460-08:00Kokomo Outsider Poetry FederationThe Kokomo Outsider Poetry Federation is a collective of poets, writers, and artists that attend to the needs of the cultural scene in Kokomo, Indiana.Olivia Suckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245659915838523983noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395248367143087309.post-12581127872835978222016-06-30T15:10:00.000-07:002016-06-30T15:10:02.619-07:00Kokomo Oralists Blow Into Outsider Poetry Slam Playoffs<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Kokomo Oralists have blown into the <a href="http://outsiderpoetryslam.blogspot.com/">Outsider Poetry Slam League of America</a> playoffs with a win over the Rockford Pages. In other news, the team padded its roster by adding a chick with large breasts to the team.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She is really good with the Clerihew. One of the judges in the match against Rockford gave her a ten. In return for that she received a very high score, which helped propel the Kokomo Oralists into the playoffs. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Her name is something something Irish. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The playoffs will begin in Rockford, ironically, at the Outsider Poetry Depot, but no one from Rockford will be there, because they can't read. But since the State Street Station closed, maybe some people will come out thinking it's a strip bar. A little poetry is a small price to pay. </span>Olivia Suckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245659915838523983noreply@blogger.com0Rockford, IL, USA42.2711311 -89.093995242.0830811 -89.41671869999999 42.459181099999995 -88.7712717tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395248367143087309.post-55826159534263686602016-04-01T00:14:00.002-07:002016-04-01T00:14:49.272-07:00Kokomo Lyrics By The Beach Boys<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Kokomo"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Key Largo, Montego,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">baby why don't we go,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Jamaica</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Off the Florida Keys</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">there's a place called Kokomo</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That's where you wanna go</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to get away from it all</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bodies in the sand,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tropical drink melting in your hand</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We'll be falling in love</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to the rhythm of a steel drum band</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Down in Kokomo</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take you to</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Key Largo Montego,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">baby why don't we go</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ooh I wanna take you down to Kokomo,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">we'll get there fast</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and then we'll take it slow</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That's where we wanna go,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">way down in Kokomo.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Martinique, that Monserrat mystique...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We'll put out to sea</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and we'll perfect our chemistry</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By and by we'll defy</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a little bit of gravity</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Afternoon delight,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cocktails and moonlit nights</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That dreamy look in your eye,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">give me a tropical contact high</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Way down in Kokomo</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Port au Prince, I wanna catch a glimpse...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Everybody knows a little place like Kokomo</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now if you wanna go to get away from it all</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Go down to Kokomo</span><br />
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Olivia Suckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245659915838523983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395248367143087309.post-72148950302167436622016-02-26T00:18:00.001-08:002016-02-26T00:18:33.292-08:00Outsider Poet Thomas L. Vaultonburg Reads "The Jackal"<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qJ1yQAN8yl0" width="459"></iframe>Olivia Suckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245659915838523983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395248367143087309.post-61545519382825984802016-02-15T22:40:00.002-08:002016-02-15T22:40:59.219-08:00Do You Like Oral?<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Do you like Oral?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">No, not Oral Roberts, though he sure he did use his mouth real perty. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"><br />No. He's not even the right kind of oral. There can be only one thing I'm referring to. A hot sloppy...</span><div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Get your dirty minds out of the gutter because it's Slam Poetry Season again, and your very own Kokomo Oralists Outsider Slam Poetry team is fixing to open a can of whoop butt on the other teams in the Slam Poetry Federation. Take it from newest team member Banshee Hootenholler</span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's better to give than to receive. A beatin', that is. A spoken word beat down, which is what The Kokomo Oralists are about to give the Rancho Cucamonga Kookamungas May 7th on opening night of the 2016 season of the Outsider Poetry Slam. </span><div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Loser swallows.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Poetry that is.</span><br /><div>
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Olivia Suckshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00245659915838523983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395248367143087309.post-50497785946270907962016-02-07T22:59:00.002-08:002016-02-26T22:21:11.967-08:00Kokomo Outsider Poetry Federation Public Charter<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kokomo, Indiana, is a city famous for its cultural heritage. We are proud of our long list of contributors to the artistic, literary, and cultural heritage of the United States of America, including Steven Spielberg, Johnny Cash, and Colonel Sanders. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">During WWII when all the poets were called away to war, the women of Kokomo banded together and kept the Federation of Outsider Poetry alive by composing limericks and haikus after their shift at the waterbed plant.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Derail a train, sabotage a plane, or sink a ship carrying the Hon. Perrin Beatty, Minister of Revenue.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Deny assisstance to Perrin Beatty if you find him stuck in quicksand, caught in a bear trap, or dying of thirst or starvation.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have juvenile delinquents beat the Revenue Minister to death in a dark alley.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hang, guillotine, or draw and quarter Revenue Minister Perrin Beatty.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wall up Perrin Beatty in your basement.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Truer words were never written than by former Kokomo Outsider Federation Poet Laureate Crash Kilodney, who himself never set foot in Kokomo, Indiana, but always had a yeraning to be named poet laureate, which he was just this evening. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But seriously, folks, the members of the Kokomo Outsider Poetry Federation take their responsibility to the arts community as a solemn public oath. Take this declaration as our public charter and statement of intention. We are proud to be a member of the five sacred cities of Outsider Poetry. </span></div>
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