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Kathy Jetnil . . . email (05/06)

At the Hawaii Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam in February 2006, Kathy Jetnil was chosen one of six students to represent Hawai`i in the national slam poetry competition in New York City, April 2006. She had been mentored in her work by Darron Cambra, a '98 grad who works with the Youth Speaks program. Here's a sample of Kathy's work:

I
Am not a poet.
I mean, I know that dope rhymes with mope and grope and slope.
But I can't
Write about soldiers or posers or the war in Iraq or love lost or the 
     cost of being yourself.
I can't
Write about the dance of the moon or the feel of his hair or getting 
caught making moves
     on a wave of perfume.
Cuz see while you were drowning in eyeliner, lamenting the finer things in 
life while
     wrapped in a thick cloak woven of the chosen words that spoke so 
thoughtlessly 
     of you caressing a single message into a lovers thighs,
I was waiting at the bus stop to get to the mall
     Thinking of limes and sea salt and of the math homework I didn't 
finish and 
     whether I can fake it and wondering if it's butt naked or buck naked.
And while you were out pedaling Harlem in dreads and spinning raindrop 
words of the 
     unspoken dead, smoking cigarettes outside of art galleries, listening 
to the 
beautiful melodies of Bob Marley,
I, instead, was sprawled on my living room floor, picking at the faded, 
peeling paint,
     watching the light flicker like a bad migrain, wondering this is all 
there is to my 
     life, wondering if this is it, and also wondering why my carpet 
smells like dog
     shit.
So don't tell me that I have a story to tell.
Don't tell that to a teenager whose mind in occupied with dumbass shows 
like Jackass
     and Laguna Beach, whose ipods drown out the sound of the open street, 
whose 
     eyes are glued to the screens of their playstation instead of 
noticing that the 
     people around them are getting persecuted on bullshit condemnation.
But
I guess I could
Tell you about walking up a couple of blocks with my cousin to the Manoa 
Parks to          
     watch the smoke curl around her ears as she tells me how she fears 
that the only 
     reason she hasn't tried to die is because then no one will be able to 
cradle her 
     drunken father as he reaches for another Bud Light to drown out the 
nightmares
     and hallucinations of his dead wife.
But then again,
I guess we're all overdramatic
At the age of ten.
So hey don't expect me to have anything to say
Because I am not smart enough, I am not brave enough, and I'm sure as hell 
not stupid 
     enough
To put my heart out on the line and wrap it up all nicely with some cute 
or sweet little 
     rhyme
And so I won't write about deaths and the moon and deep, heart-wrenching 
love and the 
     sunset
Cuz I already said it and, man, I'm not even gonna try it cuz, see, 
I 
Am not a poet.


 Click here for three more of Kathy's 
pieces in MS Word format, six pages total.  

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If you do not have your own electronic address, I'd be happy to list your mailing address and/or phone number. Please let me know your name (including last name before marriage if changed) and your graduation year.