Poetry as Inspiration

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Gleib shares some of his favorite inspiration - poetry and the power of words.

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Poets are inspiring to me. Some of the great poets are by Angelou Dr. Zeus and Sell Silverstein. People are talking about things that they matter. Do you know what I mean? Like racial inequality or let us say you do not want to go to school today. There is tips or let us say there is a particular dish that is grouse to you, you do not want to eat anywhere, not on a bus, not with a guy named Gus. I mean, they are tackling these issues in modern poetry and I think that is what gets lost on to this youth. People do not appreciate the classics and the modern classics that are both modern but also classical in their nature, if that makes any sense.

So, I am inspired by poetry a lot. Rap music inspires me to both the more of a gangster, I think that is important. They inspire me to be very antiestablishment, Maroon 5 inspires me to squeeze my nuts and sing it a higher octave than I normally can. And inspiration can be found anywhere. I get inspired sometimes by horrible television programs. So, I think wow, I could easily make television programs better than that, of course than I just smoke weed and masturbate but you get inspired nonetheless. The point is inspiration is still there whether you act on it or whether you watch reruns of Charmed on TNT and then ordering Chinese food.

Whichever way you go with it, you are inspired in the end, it makes you feel tingly in a nonsexual way and that is what is the greatest thing about inspiration. I think when you are inspired you are inspired.

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