Crossing the Street
I gave a poem a standup comedy makeover. Watch and read below.
“Crossing the Street,” which I’m trying out here, in the above video, for the first time at The Mister Rogers Variety Hour 8/18 show, filmed by Jen Clark.
Here is the original version:
Here Goes
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When I was a very little kid (in Manhattan) and a grownup took my hand to cross the street, I thought that the philosophy behind the hand-holding was that, if a car hit us, we would die together. I didn’t know that part of being a grownup was knowing, with near certainty, that you could cross the …
