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		Jive Challenge
		Read and/or listen to the following poem excerpts. Try to decipher the poets' vernacular by filling in the translation box with a short interpretation of their meaning. Hit Submit to see the poet's answer and the last 10 translations. Hit Poet's POV to see the answer without submitting a translation.


	Take 1: Jamie Lau		*Listen*
	"You see this paradigm became a paradox This paradox has unraveled into Pandora's box, and, thus, the ills of the world were relinquished In forms of cocks and glocks and clocks, Cocks and glocks and clocks..."
	My Tranzlation


	Take 2: Antonio Mims		*Listen*
	"It's like my thoughts they dwell in cells caged in by translucent balls Bit by the stars then touched by an angel And finally kissed by death And after all that you ask what do I have left? "
	My Tranzlation


	Take 3: Kiara Espinosa		*Listen*
	"so we keep living in this bubble world reading, seeing, hearing the world through the perspective of the beast. We live in the belly of the beast while the beast lashes out at the next generation"
	My Tranzlation


	Take 4: Rickena Bates		*Listen*
	"But they oppose the threat to those Whose shows forget to show the sets that protect The souls that regret being sold to roles"
	My Tranzlation


	Take 5: Boomer Hurwitz		*Listen*
	"info is not experience listening is not living surveying is not surviving third person is not first person a theory is not an encounter to assume a position is not 'assume the position' a test record is not an arrest record words are not wounds words are not wounds and I ... I am not even scratched."
	My Tranzlation

	Take 6: Gabe Crane		*Listen*
	"So thanks for inviting me to the mainstream, but I'll take the rapids and the waterfall, And swim without a bathing suit while I'm at it, Old man."
	My Tranzlation

Dechipherin' Your Vernacular

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