[the Writing of Kuypers]
but I was watching this show, and it had to be on TV
and these two black women came up next to the stage
laughing, that they always were at one of their mom’s places
and they were thanking mom, I suppose, I don’t know why
but they ended up saying that they were going to lip sync
now I don’t know anything by LaToya Jackson
and I was expecting a fast song, and I was expecting
and sipper jackets over plain shirts, they were wearing normal clothes
and the music was for a slow song, it was like
were dancing to this slow song by LaToya Jackson
so the camera would come close to one of the women
I think it said something to the effect of “to be together,”
the camera panned out to show the two of them, from head to toe,
and they each leaned in to each other, and turned their heads
and I thought, this was the strangest thing I’d ever seen
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Dreams 02/05/06 (Lip Synch)
I don’t know what kind of show I was watching
it was like a mix between Solid Gold, or Soul Train, and Miss America
because people were competing for talent in some sort of contest
but I wasn’t watching it though the TV screen
it was like I was there, like I was one of the cameras
relatively short, had some weight on them
and they started talking to the people, explaining
and mom always bought this kind of soda
it wasn’t a brand name, and it had a ton of sugar in it
they were talking about one of their mothers
and the cheap generic sugar-filled sodas she always had
and dance to a number, I think the some was by LaToya Jackson
so I don’t even know what the song was
and I couldn’t tell you if this song was by her or not
they’d be dressed up, and working out a lot,
but they wore their tight jeans over their big legs
and they didn’t even match each other
and the music started up and one of them started to move
they picked a slow song by LaToya Jackson to lip sync to
and remember, they weren’t singing, but these two girls
and lip syncing
when the voice started up to watch her lip expecting to LaToya,
and at one point there was a line in the song,
or “we’ll be together,” or something
and when shey lip synced that line
now facing each other. palms touching and fingers interlocked,
each of them holding one leg bent at the knee, feet sticking out
to the camera, touching their faces cheek to cheek
to say this lip sync this line together, facing the camera
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