Skinned

Hi there, my names Skinned, welcome to the page and err...Have a nice day...Or you could just have a good ol' miserable one...The choice is yours...I ain't ordering you to do it, if you wanna walk around with a face like a smacked arse, if you wanna bemoan the one bit of free time you have, if you choose to give the impression to the rest of the world that the reason your looking so sad is coz you've just had your nose rubbed in a puddle of cats piss as you spread doom and gloom in your wake trudging forlornly through the emptiness of your week...An emptiness of your own choosing I might add...Then hey, am I to stop you...I mean, yeah lifes short and you really never know what's around the corner, and hey, unfortunately there's a small chance that anyone of us might get hit by a bus tomorrow...I've heard it said that it's a wise soul that never puts off today what he might never be able to do tomorrow and I once caught a whisper about something to do with living life to the full... But hey...you do what you gotta do...But...you know...there is another way...You my friend, could decide to get twatted, decide to get s.p.l.a.t.t.e.d, choose to wake up in a hedge with your hair squashed and matted, you could push every boundary that gets set in your way, you could live for the night and then live for the day, take this fucking long week by the scruff of the neck and party till you're just a star spangled wreck, tread that pathway to heaven till your head explodes and then slip into Sundays recovery mode...Because hey...Life's short...So enjoy the fucker...As for the words, I came to the Netherlands and seemed to find my karma, I started putting some of my poems up on here sixteen months ago and things have kind of flowed from there, I met a guy on here, Gijs ter Haar, a spoken word performer who amongst other things hosts an event called Slammersfoort, and he suggested I get up and give it a go and introduced me to an English Poet by the name of Barry Fitton who along with his Exploding Galactic Productions puts on various events in and around Amsterdam, who offered to me a chance to read as part of a new night he was hosting in Amsterdam... and so while walking past a bar in Enschede I see the words Poezie Slam and decided to enter... and despite the nerves and being the only person in the room with English as a first language I survived... Since then as well as appearing on Barry's bi-monthly nights in Amsterdam, where I've not only had the chance to read my words and follow the rabbit hole but listened and learned from some great poets and performers, I've performed at Ruigoord and the Amsterdam Literary Festival and somehow, by default and good fortune got myself into this years Slammersfoort Finals , to be held in Amersfoort at the Borra Cafe on the 14th December... Pretty damn crazy for someone with the bilingual skills of a mute pheasant... and I'm not going to say it's been easy... rabbit holes never are and I've a hell of a lot to learn and writing and performing are two completely different things... But like I said....I've seem to of found my Karma ;) As well as writing and performing poetry, I write lyrics for anyone who cares to collaborate and fiddle around with electronic dance music, I live life to the full as often as I possibly can, keep those I love close, and those I don't at bay with a sharp pointy stick and generally try to keep the smile in place on this mission through the three score and ten...The music you can find on the Collaborationz space on the Top Friends below...My words tend to follow my flow of Love, Life and Reality and you can check out my poems in the blog, I like to say things as I see them I hope you enjoy, but either or either, if you've an opinion about any of what you find then feel free to leave a comment, good or bad it's err...all good...;)Smile and enjoy:)Skinned