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    3000 Miles to Change Your Mind
    3000 Miles to Change Your Mind
    3000 Miles to Change Your Mind
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    3000 Miles to Change Your Mind

    By Andrew Tyree Clinkscale

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    A book of poetry by 2009 Charlotte Grand Slam Poetry Champion Andrew Tyree. Original works about love, life, and world issues.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Tyree Clinkscale
    Release dateJul 2, 2012
    ISBN9781476471464
    3000 Miles to Change Your Mind
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    Andrew Tyree Clinkscale

    Born Andrew Tyree Wilson Clinkscale, in Nuremberg, Germany, Andrew began dancing at the age of four and playing the violin at five. He eventually became the youngest person and the only African American to tour with the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, and to receive a scholarship to the Milwaukee Conservatory of Music. An actor, singer and award winning spoken word artist. Raised by the St Louis foster care system, he began acting at the age of 14 in the reps production of The King. Soon thereafter, his musical talents got him signed to Interscope records as part of the group Undeniable. Though their album went unreleased, the opportunity with Interscope lead Andrew to New York City where he'd further his talents and take up the art of spoken word.After discovering a love for poetry, he honed his skills and began competing. He was the 2004 Slam Bush Champion, the 2005 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion, ranked 12th in the 2005 Individual World Poetry Championships and 6th at the 2008 Individual World Poetry Slam. Also appearing on HBO'S Def Poetry Jam, his titles include the 2009 Slam Charlotte Grand Slam Champion and member of the 2009 Slam Charlotte Team.

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      3000 Miles to Change Your Mind - Andrew Tyree Clinkscale

      3000 Miles to Change Your Mind

      By

      Andrew Tyree

      Copyright 2012 3000 Andrew Tyree Clinkscale

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      (This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover Photo by Jessica Noel

      Table of Contents

      Poems For Poetry

      Ms. Poetry

      Kitchen Poetry

      Warning

      Gangsta

      Completion

      We Can Do Better

      Water World/Katrina

      Sisters

      Aids Boycott

      Good Guys

      Just Think

      Girl Fight

      We The People

      Possibilities

      Beautiful

      Legends

      Therapy Session

      Heaven Sent

      My Locks

      Great Poet

      No Choice

      Saturn’s Rings

      Go Home

      Black Rain

      Hardest Place

      Let’s Have Fun

      Unwanted Guest

      Switch

      St. Louis

      Short Ones

      Now

      To Love, Love...

      Perfection

      Speechless

      Anticipation

      Cheated

      Love Speech

      Rainy Days

      ...not so much

      Deepest Pain

      Emotion Stir

      Freefall

      Hello

      Wrong One

      Sleep

      Goodbye

      Special

      Truth

      Poems for Poetry

      …I love her

      Ms. Poetry

      And this isn’t even a poem

      So much as is it an apology letter

      And probably isn’t the place or the time

      But I figure what the heck right

      This is where we first met

      first made love

      first made rhyme

      My nails, they look horrible today

      or at least that’s what I used to say

      And I still can figure out whether that statement was gay

      Or whether I was just stating a fact

      But what was cool was that when I was with you

      None of that seemed to matter

      All you cared about was making sure that my clothes matched…

      Cause I’m color blind

      And if my nails looked that bad then we would have

      "manly manicure time"

      code name M&M time

      So that the other kids would only think that we were making a candy run

      And you’re still the only one who would walk with me to the nail spot

      (I still can’t call it a salon)

      and you would whisper

      "Any one that’s in here to laugh at you probably just got their toes done."

      And we would laugh hard,

      and that’s the way we were all the time

      And the people who saw me with joy but nothing to be happy about

      Assumed they were the same thing

      Though I was crazy

      put me in therapy

      Tried to convince me that you weren’t real

      Took away my pencils and

      Tried to teach me that facts can’t be abstract

      And it worked

      cause a piece of you died every time I stepped inside that foster home counseling center

      where they had more than enough candy and toys to make an child happy

      but never any pencils.

      But you never were the giving up type

      So Nov 2003, NYC

      I was miserable

      And we met again for the first time

      You still bright shining

      Me I was a bastard this time

      No I really I’d lost my father

      told you I didn’t wanna be bothered

      I didn’t come here for you

      I came here to act, acting’s what I do

      Me and the pain have gotten very close

      And all you wanted to do was separate us

      So we didn’t like you

      I got comfortable with the idea of romancing my fears

      acting as if we were really here

      When none of us are really here

      we’re all just kinda passing through

      And I guess that’s where you found me

      Somewhere between being an orphan and longing to be mama’s boy

      Between being alone in a relationship

      And feeling crowded on an empty rooftop filled with angels

      Staring at an empty notebook with an unsharpened pencil

      You touched my elbow and said don’t think, just write

      We’ll get through this

      it might take a minute

      but if you got a min then we can do this till the sun comes up

      And somewhere around the third poem and the third hour

      something about my mother

      and my 3rd foster home

      I realized that this is love,

      not I love you love

      But whatever you need I’ll give you, love

      Tap you every twelve seconds to remind you to breathe, love

      And it’s not dependent on how you treat me, love

      Always slow to anger slow to speak

      Quick to listen quick to teach

      This is what the Greek call agape

      You said you got it, today is your birthday

      now go teach the world so they’ll never again be thirsty

      in that moment formed my destiny

      I had my poetry back

      First stop M&M time at the nail spot

      (I still can’t call it a salon)

      But on the way I promised to always keep a sharpened pencil

      And never aging to mix up passion and destiny

      You said great cause every breath is now blessed responsibility

      Poetry

      You are so magnificent

      the greatest story ever told

      so much more to be written.

      Kitchen Poetry

      So I’m in the kitchen and my notebook is on my bed

      That wouldn’t be a problem except I got this amazing poem running through my head

      And I gotta get it on paper cause it’s gotta be read,

      like food to these spectators it’s gotta be fed.

      But I can’t move too quickly from this spot cause I’ll lose it

      So my method of moving carefully I gotta chose it.

      And I can’t think about nothing else cause I’ma get off track

      And I know if

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