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Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre is offering words of poetic inspiration for the people of Colorado through the COVID-19 crisis:

Nothing Left

And when there is nothing left to do but live,
let us retire the noise,
and build a home inside the stillness.

Grab a wrench and unfasten the parts of you
that have become mechanical;
rest your weary limbs in the bed of anomaly.

Outside,
the machine is powering down.
You can hear the birds when the gears aren’t grinding.

When there is nothing left to do but live,
make a vacation of your body;
each part explored, a stamp on your passport.

Begin with your heart, maybe?
Crawl inside and sightsee,
ask difficult questions about who it is, and why.

Outside,
the machine is powering down.
You can hear yourself when the gears aren’t grinding.

When there is nothing left to do but live,
simply show up;
that has always been enough.

And together in this sudden strangeness,
radical imagination will run wild;
tomorrow being built today.

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Colorado Poet Laureate Bobby LeFebre is an award-winning writer, actor, playwright and two-time Grand Slam champion poet who was named the 2019 Colorado Theatre Person of the Year by the DCPA’s True West Awards. The Denver native is a National Poetry Slam Finalist, an Individual World Poetry Slam Finalist and a two-time TEDx speaker. He has performed at hundreds of cultural events, social actions, detention centers, conferences and colleges and universities across the United States and abroad. LeFebre is also co-founder of Cafe Cultura, an award-winning nonprofit that uses poetry as a tool for youth literacy. LeFebre, who wrote Su Teatro’s 2019 world premiere play ‘Northside,’ is a graduate of North High School, Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Denver. Find his web site at bobbylefebre.com

Bobby LeFebre: Colorado’s 2019 Theatre Person of the Year

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