Me brick.
Brick is good at being brick.
Brick graduated magna cum laude
from Brick University,
where brick learned how to be brick.
(inhales) Sit still.
(inhales) Not move.
(inhales) Not move even when pushed.
Brick major in shelter,
minor in heaviness.
Brick always wanted to be part
of ice cream store.
Brick love pistachio ice cream
even if brick lactose intolerant
and mildly allergic to nuts.
Brick like to watch children have
carnival faces and smile eyes.
Then man with bad toupee
and graveyard for mouth come
say need brick for project.
And brick think hotel,
brick could be hotel,
help travel people with rest
help escape from hard, hard things.
Brick could be big tower
with sign that say "Welcome."
Brick would like that very much.
But brick not hotel.
Brick not ice cream store.
Brick here in big, big wall.
Brick see children come,
no carnival faces, no smile eyes.
Sometimes paint brick face,
ask brick for help.
Block who live above brick say,
"No look, brick.
Brick not made to look.
Brick made to sit still, not move,
even when pushed.
This is why called block,
made to stop things."
But brick had professor from Palestine.
Brick had grandfather from Berlin.
Brick know apartheid when brick see it.
Brick not made to stop things.
Brick made to start things.
Brick heavy enough to crack riot shield,
heavy enough to shatter patrol car window.
Toss brick into water,
see how water rises 
with the weight of brick.
Brick want children come
with shotgun arm, trebuchet hand.
Use brick to shatter 
graveyard man headstone teeth.
Tie brick to graveyard man 
tiny orange feet and sink into river.
Brick see you,
in wall,
listening to brick.
Pretend not to hear,
not to see,
not move, even when pushed!
Brick say be a weapon.
Brick say be shelter.
Brick say be pushed.
Brick say be part of push.
(cheers and applause)
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