This poem, “NEED” created by Deaf poet Peter Cook and hearing poet, Kenny Lerner. This was created in their usual creative places: hotels on the road. This is is about a minute long. Please pass it around as the election is around the corner..
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AWSOME!!!!!! Peter Cook rocks! and Interpreter, fantastic job 🙂
peter cook is awesome but however this whole change thing isn’t working out!!!
I have chills. Fantastic delivery by each of you, and the message very powerful. Absolutely beautiful, thank you for this!
Wow… without realizing it, I started tearing up… That was ridiculously amazing! Beautiful, I loved the entire performance. I have, indeed, subscribed. =]
Not ASL my foot. Peter Cook is to ASL what Shakespere is to English.
peter as always, nice job!!!!!! voice over interpreter, great job!!!!! i’m going to miss you peter, now that i’ve graduated!
what the fuck does this have to do with Obama? Quit hanging off his nutsac.
Ha! Ha! Good one!
intense. thanks for sharing this, man.
Wow! this is so great! I loved it!
BRAVO! I’m in my second semester of ASL, and this hit home. I suggest everyone who has watched this, watch it again without hearing or looking at the words. You will get a sense of the power of ASL.
Cowgirl calling this “gibberish” shows she has no idea what ASL or ASL poetry is.
Great poem.
he or she really doesn’t know or have a clue what classifiers handshapes or anything else is…let me guess u only learned word from word…take deaf studies or even go to a deaf function and then you will see for yourself
ten bucks says cowangel is deaf and you all have offended him or her. that would be poignantly ironic
gibberish….good grief…take a class
WOW!
How anyone could say this was gibberish is beyond me! Clearly she has never taken any classes on classifiers or played the “handshape” game….Obama would be impressed!
Cowangel, Perhaps you should work on your grammar skills before commenting on what you think is or isn’t language.
Whew…i’m blown away. You 2 are amazing, and boy do we need this CHANGE!
waving hands!
I guess Cowangel25 doesn’t know what ASL poem is.
Is it possible to get a transcript of the voiceover?
are you serious????
its a gibberish, not a asl.
a soldier in a coffin dripping precious drops of need…. what else is there to say ?
Absolute and final! No q’s and answers. We ALL need to change AND change! Not coin changes nor exCHANGE!
Very beautiful and touching. We take all of these things for granted and don’t realize what our greed (need) is doing to the world we live in; the world that we should instead cherish & protect. What kind of world have we created for our grandchildren?? One of hate and greed and war? Oh God, help us to do better and to change!! It is too bad that we can’t work together in peace and create a better life for all. Imagine what would happen if we all worked together instead of killed each other….