POETRY AU LAIT TEEN'S POEM WINS MILK COMPETITION.Byline: Sharon Cotal Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Scores of writers over the centuries have poured out their anguish over unrequited love This article may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , and 18-year-old Jason Smedley of Canyon Country is no exception. While dealing with his heartache, Smedley decided to have a little fun and entered a poem in the statewide Got Milk Poetry Slam poetry slam n. A spoken-word poetry competition. contest sponsored by the California Milk Processor Board. The board invited teens to submit poems dramatizing the campaign's familiar theme of milk deprivation DEPRIVATION, ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. Vide Ayliffe's Parerg. 206; 1 Bl. Com. 393. . ``I just made some analogies between girl deprivation and milk deprivation,'' he said. ``My girlfriend and I had just broken up, and I found it easy to relate the feelings I felt to milk deprivation.'' Smedley presented his poem at the semifinalist competition held Oct. 20 in Hollywood, and while he was nervous at first because of the television cameras and people watching People watching or crowd watching is a hobby of some people to watch those around them and their interactions. This differs from voyeurism in that it does not relate to sex or sexual gratification. , after practicing a few times he was able to relax and add some drama to the reading. His contemporary love poem, ``Living Without You Is Like Life Without Milk,'' and his presentation of the verses impressed the judges enough to award Smedley the second prize. He received a $400 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble and an assortment of Got Milk merchandise including a shirt, hat and coffee mug. ``I love milk so much that every morning I wake up and I run to the fridge to get some milk,'' he said. ``It's the best drink.'' Perhaps it can even help heal a broken heart. Living Without You Is Like Living Without Milk Girl, living without you is like eating dry cereal cereal or grain Any grass yielding starchy seeds suitable for food. The most commonly cultivated cereals are wheat, rice, rye, oats, barley, corn, and sorghum. As human food, cereals are usually marketed in raw grain form or as ingredients of food products. , It's rough and cuts deep tryin to swallow swallow, common name for small perching birds of almost worldwide distribution. There are about 100 species of swallows, including the martins, which belong to the same family. Swallows have long, narrow wings, forked tails, and weak feet. it down, It's like eating a cake without any milk, When I try to swallow, I will only choke (jargon) choke - To fail to process input or, more generally, to fail at any endeavor. E.g. "NULs make System V's "lpr(1)" choke." See barf, gag. , And living without you is like running out of milk, It starts a decay deep inside my bones, Losing you was like eating peppers with no milk, I wasn't prepared for the pain it would bring, Trying to hold onto you is like tryin to grasp milk, All you will do is slip right out of my hands, And not knowing you is like never tasting a milkshake, For my love and your love will never be mixed, And loving you is like loving milk, but being poor, Not having enough money to buy some more So even though I don't have you, do I still ``Got Milk?'' CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Jason Smedley turned his anguish over lost love into a winning poem. Box: Living Without You Is Like Living Without Milk (see text) |
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