Louder than a bomb college slam march 4th

Louder than a bomb is a city wide youth poetry slam, the biggest in the world.
the college branch of it started three years ago for those who just can't let go after graduating high school.
It is held each year at Columbia College, and that is how I ended up here. By going to LTAB, I was exposed to Columbia and decided I wanted to go here.

A slam is an olympic style event where there are five judges and each poet is given a score from 1-10 with one decimal in order to break ties. but the point is not the point, the point is the poetry. like one of the co-hosts said "Slam is a joke its just an excuse for many people to get together and like poetry. Its like gangster rap. Its not thug life, its hug life. I actually have that tatooed across my stomach...haha...no actually I started having that tattoed and as soon as they put the needle in, I was all AAHHHHHHHH MAKE IT STOP PLEASE NO MORE!"

so slam isn't about competition, its just so we get together and read. there were a few poets who I admire who were up on the mic. On is a girl with pink hair whose name is George. She had a great piece in her second round about an infactuation she has with a boy, but whenever shes at his house, there is always a one foot gap inbetween them, and how she hates all the gaps inbetween them, but she goes anyway so there is atleast a foot rather than a mile inbetween. There was another poet who talked of how womanhood is beautiful. one poet went up on the mic with an ipad, and he talked of welfare. Which was really jacked up, but hey thats what happens at LTAB, people talk of being poor while still looking fresh. There were many pieces i didn't like, but I can't really recall them right now because i tend to push bad poems out of my head.

-Hera