Rhiannon McGavin - Chick Lit 

SHE'S ON BUTTON I'M SO PROUD OF HER

I love Rhiannon's poetry.

I love Rhiannon!! It's so nice to see her on Button's channel!

her voice is so powerful

splendid

Rhiannon is absolutely amazing!!! I love this. I'm so glad to see her on Button's channel.

I really wanted to bring this poem to my poetry group to read (with full credit to Rhiannon of course). If anyone wants to do the same, here's the transcript. But please, credit Rhiannon!! It takes time and talent to write something like this :) Edgar Allan Poe said that the death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetic topic in the world except I think that the most poetic thing is the dress that my mom wore in France when she was pregnant yellowed with flowers its stretched to fit her and shrinks to hold me now there's a sonnet in each of my grandma's old lipsticks and all the coats that my aunt wears another device in any piece of clothing deemed lucky in fact the poetry is in my neighbor explaining how her parents survived a genocide that spoke four languages or the in jamant sobs in the fruit aisle, shower and best friend's car sinking through deep summer all our injuries rhyme from singing with a sore throat to a mattress heavier than God the freckle on my right palm tracing every capillary popped on purpose the stomach's is yours who else could place scars into genres I've seen better poems in rising bread than anything Bukowski dreamed of that Hemingway demanded and Fitzgerald plagiarized and cert petition for see they can excuse scaring women for art though if you are a scared woman they tie your art back to your crazy it leaks through the gallery like it’s crazy how a couple movies are worth more than children like they can't see the fingerprints on the filmstrip and I guess it's a good song but the bass drum sounds like internal bruising and we don't dance to those at my house the violence of creative men is more of a burning library than a closed book and you choose what you want to read so I concur that picking graveyard dirt out of my nails is of highest literary value in fact the most poetical thing is me slumped on my desk sleeping through every English class for the rest of the year after my teacher said he didn’t know of any female writers good to study no one in that damned mob of scribbling women was worth discussion since we were only supposed to be the flourish the adverb the stage he walks on the spit on his finger so he can flip a page and we can't bite the hand that feeds us cants waterway pens that dip in our pretty corpses he sweats corn syrup and red food dye and needs someone to hurt for him but I can stand straight without balancing them on my head I have always washed my troubles in extra mascara so they are defined in the spotlight molded them to hold a rapier for the finale taught them how to speak from the gut even when you're crying even when the voice shakes project so all the women who ever press their thumb onto my cheek and watch me live from the back row and the ghosts above the theatre they can see us too

4.6 thousand people have watched this beautiful and truthful statement yet, only 665 of those human beings are brave enough to publicly touch an emoticon to say three words that can be interpreted in so many ways.

she is so raw, that's the type of spoken word I like

your poetry is beautifully raw. Strong women are the futur.

Out of all the contest entries, I think this one's the best so far.

some people don't like how her voice cracks when she speaks but i love it. i think it's beautiful

I love listening to Rhiannon just for her voice

It's so cool to finally see her on Button's youtube channel!!

yas! ♡ I loved Somewhere In America. her delivery is so raw. glad to see more of her.

*snap*

I love Rhiannon and how powerful her poetry is and I'm so glad to see her on this channel!!

she is something truly special

So nice to see Rhiannon here; I absolutely adore her.

amazing delivery and message. I hope Rhiannon is on this channel more often!

God I absolutely love everything about Rhiannon. I aspire to write like her someday.

it's so great to see rhiannon on this channel! i love this poem and it's amazing to see her going out for contests

so magical to see rhiannon on this channel. so much love. 💕

She left me speechless (as always) It's awesome watching her grow and leap bounds of her own

Her voice and tone reminds me of Winona Ryder in Heathers

Beautiful. God, I love her work.

I love her poems so much 😍😍😍🐐

This is so moving and well-written! Great job Rhiannon!

love it

This is such an intriguing poem and strong performance. So glad I stumbled upon this!

I love! I need more 💛

DAYUM

This is really wonderful.

I love her so muchhhh

I love this femininst beautiful poetry that argues for equality

the most poetic thing is the dress of my mother wore when she was pregnant !!

I am IN LOVE

This is beautiful... thank you.

after years 💓🙏

how is amazing absolutely amazing

YES

I think the most poetic thing is everyone's imperfections, those very imperfections allow the strong to use those who are weak to further themselves into greatness! We all can stand to do the human thing and rule over those who are weak. Lest you be the very ilk that made into tool's.

Amazing

Rhiannon is my fave :')

Started off a bit over-dramatic, but by the middle I was totally engaged. Great stuff.

so good

Great influence on hearts speach ❤

Yes boo!!!!!!!!!!!

AMAZING

amazing

I fucking love this girl

RHIANNON YES

SHES ON BUTTON?!? HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE

RHIANNON!!!!!

Great Poem!

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💗💗

Omg

awesome

holy shit shes so great

Bravo! All I can say is bravo!!! She hits so many goods points! I wonder if the four-language-genocide reference is what I think it is...

Whoah

nice!

wow

WOAH

Is no one else jealous of her library in the back?

🙏🔥🌱

Hit me v hard

it's rhiannon YEET

*No one in that damned mob of scribbling women was worth discussion* : Get thee to oblivion Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Frances Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Emma Lazarus, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, H.D., Amy Lowell, Audre Lord, Louise Bogan, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Lucille Clifton, Anne Sexton, Mary Oliver, Louise Gluck, Anne Carson, Denise Levertov, Jorie Graham, Sharon Olds, Maya Angelou, Muriel Rukeyser, Rita Dove, Marge Piercey and Rhiannon McGavin. Randall Jarrell included only Marianne Moore in his 1955 book *Poetry and the Age*. Here in Scotland I will search for your books, Ms McGavin.

I was looking down at my hands when she said “the freckle on my right palm” I have one too. 😖

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