NPR poetry Month: Vince Staples Reads His Favorite Twitter Poems

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Now it's time for more Twitter poetry. Here's one from Dave Paulsen in Minnesota.

DAVE PAULSEN: String cheese. You think you're so smart, shedding your skin like a cylindrical¹ reptile². Take heed³, though, little dairy product. Your changes are numbered.

MARTIN: Now we asked Dave if this poem came out of some kind of epic⁴ string cheese struggle, and he replied think of it as a statement about all of our struggles with hubris⁵ and an eventual⁶ vulnerability to change. All, of course, embodied⁷ within a tasty dairy snack. And there was a winky face emoji at the end. OK. Let's hear it again, this time through that filter of existential angst.

PAULSEN: String cheese. You think you're so smart, shedding your skin like a cylindrical reptile. Take heed, though, little dairy product. Your changes are numbered.

MARTIN: Thank you, Dave Paulsen. And it's not all fun and games and dairy products on our Twitter feed. There are a lot of thoughtful reflections on nature and identity which makes it a good time to turn it over to rapper Vince Staples⁸. He came to our studios for an interview which you will hear later this hour. But while he was here, we asked him to check out #NPRpoetry and read a couple of his favorites.

VINCE STAPLES: My name is Vince Staples, and I'm going to read a couple of poems for tweet poems for poetry month. This is by Jack⁹ Mayer M.D. (ph). (Reading) I am a god to the birds.

Great work. This is by Frooz Bashar (ph) (reading) we're mammals with money, people, mammals with money.

That [expletive] is deep.

MARTIN: Yes. That stuff is deep, although mammals with money is not really a Twitter poem. It's actually a quote from our colleague Sabri Ben-Achour in a Marketplace report - poetic¹⁰ though.

If you have any poetic insights, remember all this month you can tweet your original poems to us with a hashtag #NPRpoetry. We might just reach out and ask you to read it on the air.