For Tyler Perry: Why Didn't I Get Married

It's *kinda* embarrassing to admit that last week I fell off the radar because I found out that Tyler Perry was having a talent contest and I wanted to enter. The premise was to videotape yourself doing "something that you do best," and the winner gets a walk-on role to one of his up-coming movies. My greatest talent is not singing, rapping, or talking about myself for the allotted 3 minutes, so I decided to write. However, writing doesn't translate very well to youtube, so I decided that I needed to write and perform my very first spoken word poem. Easier said than done.

Tyler Perry YouTube Contest

My inspiration for the piece were a myriad of these incredible spoken word professionals. I figured that if I was going for the win, then I needed to learn from the best. I didn't just want to be good, I wanted to be great.



Using my creativity, I wondered 'what would get Mr. Perry's attention?' when it struck me to do a response to one of his works. One of my favorites is the movie Why Did I Get Married? I didn't have to contemplate for long before the Poem Why Didn't I Get Married? flowed from my fingertips onto the keyboard. I was happy with the result: I embellished for theatrics, but the main point was valid (I need to say this because I still highly respect this person, even if the "us together" part didn't work).

I taped and submitted it! Check the blog after this one for the result.