I Won't Write Your Obituary

And after, I won't come by to pick up the package of body parts you will have left specifically for me.
I'll get a call like 'M'am, what would you have us do with them?'
and I'll say, burn them. Feed them to stray cats.
Throw them at school children.
Hurl them at the sea.
I don't care.
I don't want them.
I don't want your heart. It's not yours anymore, it's just a heart now and I already have one.
I don't want your lungs, just deflated birthday party balloons that can't breathe anymore.
I don't want a jar of your teeth as a monument.
I don’t want your ripped off skin, a blanket to wrap myself in when I need to feel like you’re still here.
You won’t be there.
There’s no blood there, there’s no life there, there’s no you there.
I want you.


(Excerpt from I Won't Write your Obituary By: Nora Cooper)

This is a part of my forensics piece. I had to take it out of my performance but I liked this part so much I still wanted to share it. Forensics is a activity the school provides. It is hard for almost everyone to speak or give a speech to many people. So why not start when your young? Forensics is practicing speaking in front of people, because it's something that everyone one is going to have to do through out their life and it's something everyone struggles with.