Harrison Ines Spoken Word Examples

In Harrison Ines’ spoken word, “2pm,” is an outcry of the everyday life of the American people who faced the difficult condition of the United States of America’s economic turmoil.

Since this spoken word was posted on YouTube in the year 2010, the content refers to a time of post-recession in the United States of America. It was a time when the American economy plummeted, resulted a negative domino affects towards the nation and the world, therefore resulting the closure of banks and businesses as people struggled to make a day-to-day living. While American businesses also faced difficulty, they find greedy tactics that all the more worsen the livelihood of the American people.

Harrison Ines expressed this spoken word with sadness among the

“…is fallen in the third world was convinced the curl in her empty mouth into gold. Behold. she is alive, gasping on a gloryhole. With a throat so good she could suck a nail through wood. Keep her hands busy and her mouth full. But did you forget Mary Magdalene was once a prostitute” (0:42) This describe the difficult path this woman must choose to stay alive by falling into ways that produce easy income, thus prostitution. This person ‘accepts’ she is making by in order to survive by prostitution work, which it stated “gasping on a gloryholes”. Although prostitution is shunned upon society and that there are risks involve, she was really good at it. Harrison Ines used allusion by comparing the women to Mary Magdalene, she was a prostitute that showed great example of obedience to Jesus and that she was considered a saint among Catholics. This comparison between these two made the women less immoral, since Mary Magdalene was viewed very highly among the Catholics, the woman should be viewed the same way as well. Ines also use a lot of idiom in this part of spoken word such as “…suck a nail through wood.” and “…empty mouth into gold.” These idioms allowed us to visually and emotionally feel empathy toward this woman who work as a

“Outsourcing blood and oil, but tell me does the Filipino man stuck in the barrios look like a natural resource to you.” (1:45) This line used allusion as well. Referring “outsourcing blood and oil,” a “Filipino man”, and “natural resource.” The Philippines was known for being the most colonize country through the Spanish, British, American, and Japanese empires. (Loh) As part of the history of colonization, these empires commonly exploited countries’ natural resources and use the natives as ‘slave’ like workers through low-quality and bad condition jobs. Empires usually acknowledge the natives as another resource that a country has to offer, thus acknowledging the Filipino as natural resources. I felt a sense of anger because Harrison Ines expressed this line with anger and both he and I are Filipino-Americans and thus affected