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These Words w/ Nick Lane

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Black Girl in the World:

Hello, everyone. Welcome to black girl in the world. If you don't know me, you will. And if you do welcome back, happy to have you all here and present with me today. We are branching out to other States. I I'm super excited. I have another guest on the podcast with me today. I lowkey was digging and searching for this Guy's page because I heard him on another podcast called Colored vibrations and I was thinking to myself, how interesting is this guy? Nick Lane. How are you today?

Nick Lane:

I'm good, man. I'm blessed. Uh, feel good, smell good. I feel good though. Are you feeling how you doing?

Black Girl in the World:

I'm trying. That's really what it's about. I'm doing pretty well and I'm so happy to have you here.

Nick Lane:

I appreciate it, man. Thank you for having me here. Your Bonnet looks like amazing. Thank you so much. Yeah. And it's bedazzled. I cannot believe you just said that, but that's okay. You don't have to like, it is fine. Um, by the way, I love your name. It's a brand! Is that your actual name? Nicholas Lane? Well, Nicholas Lane is my is my real name, but like Nick lane, that's just kinda like what I skate by with when it comes to doing poetry or other stuff,

Black Girl in the World:

That's really cause it's a brand like I can, I can hear it

Nick Lane:

If you, if you say it enough as it is, it's catchy.

Black Girl in the World:

It's extremely catchy. I was like, wow, this is nice. So who is Nick lane?

Nick Lane:

Um, Nick lane is a poet, um, upcoming photographer. I am the father. I am trying to find my place, you know, in this, in this weird world. Um, that's why, um, I'm more that meets the eye. I have depth to myself.

Black Girl in the World:

That's dope. I feel like you not only being a poet and a photographer, is there anything else that you do?

Nick Lane:

Um, I mean, so right now I go to Cleveland state, um, majoring in social work, uh, right now I'm trying I'm I'm um, I'm working on opening up, um, like an arcade for the community, for the community kids and stuff like that. Um, what else do I do? You know, I, do some social work practice, u h, home health p hase stuff, m an, you know, regular.

Black Girl in the World:

That sound, you know, I like it. Um, and I think that's actually cool. I'd never really heard someone want to create an arcade. Like I've always seen them.

Nick Lane:

I'm very passionate about, uh, video games. Um, and I can't stand up, man. I can't stand when someone, I can't stand this. Dang, you only gain steam that like, like I'm, I'm one of those people, but, but like I'm passionate about games and video games. U m, b ecause it's, it's how I, i t's how I t end t o self care. Like before we got o n this, I was just chilling i t also. Now I feel like, I feel like if the youth in the inner city c ommunities, do you know some other stuff to do around the city stay out of trouble. U h, i t will benefit. And video games is a great distraction. Um, I'm not like a g amer o r a gamer, but I li ke v ideo games and I'm passionate about it.

Black Girl in the World:

Okay. The only thing that I have right now is an Xbox.

Nick Lane:

The xbox one? or the Xbox

Black Girl in the World:

The xbox one because my wii broke down. So I had to buy an X-Box one. Um, I mean it's, it's stopped a couple of years ago and I was like, all right, well let me just upgrade. Honestly. I thought I was going to have more cause I wanted it because of the kinect. And so I'm like a huge just dance person. And I thought that I was gonna have the other dance games and X-Box one does not have that. And that was very sad, Terrible, uh, You should get a Nintendo 64 or something. I'll I'll think about it. I'll think about it just because you said it. Um, so you said Cleveland state, where are you from?

Nick Lane:

Um, so I was, I was born. I was born in Texas, but I currently reside in Akron, Ohio. Um, you know where LeBron went to school at and stuff like that called the river city. Um, Cleveland state is in Cleveland, Ohio. It's like a 45 minute drive for me. So I commute, but everything's virtual right now. So I dont got to make that long commute

Black Girl in the World:

I mean, that's really dope. Um, that one youre in in Ohio and I never met someone from Ohio before.

Speaker 2:

(Technical Difficulties)

Black Girl in the World:

In my head, I thought I was clicking on mine, but I'm so sorry.

Nick Lane:

Where are you from? By the way? I'm from Maryland. Okay. That's right. For some reason you seemed like you were from California or something

Speaker 1:

Really? Wow.

Speaker 2:

I've always wanted to visit, wanting to go to like some museums, some museums out there.

Speaker 1:

Um, DC is pretty, it's pretty entertaining when you want to be on this side. Um, Maryland has some pretty good stuff, but you have to like search it up. Like Maryland can seem like it's a boring state, but we actually have some pretty, pretty cool things.

Speaker 2:

Now. Now if I come up there and I'm bored as hell, I'm like, no, I can't believe she lied to me. Some pretty cool things.

Speaker 1:

You gotta search it up. You can't just show up confused.

Speaker 2:

Just show me something. We'll have to, you know, wasting the time to show me, show me around. I'll let you know.

Speaker 1:

That's perfectly fine. Text me and I'll be here. Like I always am. Am I Vaughn? Not this one because you don't like it, but dazzled, but it's fine. So you mentioned being a poet. How did you, how did that happen?

Speaker 2:

Um, and you know, I wish I had some like some glorious story to tell you, but for real, my mom, my mom, I started listening to her old Jill Scott CDs, man. I fell in love with her and, and Jill, Scott was just expressing her love for poetry. And I'm just like, dang man. You know, I'm killing it. I love it. And one day now, and like the eighth grade picked them a pan, a star right in their first, no, I was going to check around reasons. No, I was trying to Sarah, Nate marinate all in little eighth grade hunts. No, but uh, um, whether in a good light or a bad light, I made a name for myself as well. That's that boy to do poetry. And then I just started taking the serious one day, man. It's just, it's just been what I do. I just been improving, getting better, get my name out there, travel here and there, you know, um, I guess I, I hate the question. So what kind of poetry do you do? I never know how to like answer that, but like, if I were to say, what type of, what type of particular portrait I do, I would say I'm an erotic poet. Um, inner I poetess, you know, spitting out nasty up on the stage. Um, but I'm very, I'm very versatile in other subjects and other topics and things like that. Other forms of imagery, shall I say?

Speaker 1:

I never heard of an erotic poet before in my life. The closest person I could think of the closest is love Jones. That's the only way I know.

Speaker 2:

I wouldn't even, I wasn't even there erotic. That was a love Jones statement. I would assume I was just some deep metaphoric stuff that you probably wouldn't even understood if he wasn't into like, uh, um, African inner Egypt, sheen, like gods and stuff like that because that's some of the stuff that he was mentioning. But I see, I, I, I get what you're saying. I can see where

Speaker 1:

I definitely, the girls were swooning and they were happy. I was happy.

Speaker 2:

I was having to him like any brother, I got to step it up a bit. I think when I seen[inaudible] I was really like, Oh, let me take this little serious.

Speaker 1:

No, it's I think it's nice because it gets people interested. Like it's like, where did he get these words from? Why, how is he saying this on stage? It's like, it's, I think it's interesting. And how did you, do you know anybody who does that same poetry as you do?

Speaker 2:

Um, yeah, I do. I know a couple of, um, other erotic poets who do it just as good as me and shoot better than me. I know, I know some women, they, they know how to, they know how to lay it on the mic. Um, but yeah, it's a place appearance on an Akron call versus saw copper spot expressions that I do. I can do a lot of mock performances. I can hear a lot of poles. There are like erotic poets. And when they have erotic night, you know, everybody be dressed up in like lingerie and stuff. And maybe it'd be dope

Speaker 1:

Lingerie too.

Speaker 2:

I mean, metaphorically speaking, half naked and, you know, the bops. And when you, when you went a cirrhotic night, everybody know what they come in there to get,

Speaker 1:

Honestly, and this, you know, exactly what you get into. Like, it's not a surprise. Um, so I do like that, that there's just different avenues of poetry that, you know, people don't, I guess look into as much as the others.

Speaker 2:

Hm. Um, Hm. And I would say just because like, um, it's, it's, it's hard to be good at, um, not everybody has necessarily, and this is no shade on like any, any other poets, but like, it just takes, it takes, it takes a particular grip that you have to have on the audience when you're spitting, you know, orotic poetry because, you know, people tend to like, um, like, like when you don't say everything so bland for an example, instead of saying, yeah, baby, I'm not gonna tear that up. They can. And you know, saying the words, man, you know, um, it's kinda like hard to, to like add in the utility and say, um, I want to rub it in the thigh and, you know, let things kind of, um, be assumed or, you know, I'll let you, let you, let you let your mind run wild. Everybody can do that.

Speaker 1:

That is true. That's why not many people do sexting. People don't know how to talk.

Speaker 2:

Hey, talent.

Speaker 1:

So real salad. Um, so how far has poetry taking you right now? Like where you stand,

Speaker 2:

She's taking me pretty far or what she has. I won't even say like taking me far, but it has, has definitely, um, allowed me to be, allow me to be open with myself. And when, I mean open, I mean like, like it's easy for me to articulate how I'm feeling. It's easy for me to articulate how, like, how other people are feeling it has it hasn't, it has made, it has emotionally maturity. Um, aside from it being like a really great stress reliever or like self care habit that I do fortunately has, has brought me in to too many places in and have introduced many different, uh, business partners and friends, man, like, like, like the community, like, like the artistic community for one. And then the poetry community is just so beautiful, man. Like I've met really artistic people, some really beautiful soulful people, um, which was humbled me or truly has brought me a lot of things that, um, I don't think I would've got without it like light, like those little vitamins and stuff that you take that you wouldn't get if you didn't take it because you don't know why you're not getting it. And that's kind of like what poetry, um, has done for me, not necessarily where I had it wrong, but like the things that it has given both personally and like figuratively,

Speaker 1:

I respect that. Um, I love, uh, that side of the community in terms of how artistic people are, because I mean, that really shows a lot of creativity. You net work and people are, um, introducing you to different things. Like you just introduced me to some things. And I have a lot of friends who are artists in terms of like musical artists. And they've taught me so much, like it's, it's just amazing to see like different areas of poetry, art, um, culture, just to see how like your peers, um, I guess, change the narrative and make something there's. So I think it's amazing.

Speaker 2:

That's beautiful. Definitely love that.

Speaker 1:

So do you have a favorite poem of yours? Do you know any?

Speaker 2:

I do have, I have one that's this that's currently my favorite and I'm working on one. That's going to be my favorite.

Speaker 1:

Okay. I see. Would you share a little bit, um, um,

Speaker 2:

The show for sure. That's that's cool. Um, I'm going to share this one is called heavenly gardens, blind Lake lane. You remind me of shooting stars the way your skin listens like a Lake beneath the sunset drink sunlight from your skin. Pick the stars. You went to jail from falling skies into your blemishes, out from your posts that make you blissful me wishful upon those very same shooting stars that were said to be star less never, ever to shoot again. No, I guess that's why you're one of, I guess, you know, that's why you tend to twinkle in places, skin soft silk like almond milk silkier. You make the look you with Nokia, you live by the sun, up on of risk counterpart. That's right. You make the moon is secure. The universe has clearly assisted. The depth of your beauty is as deep as the abyss, your passion. And I'm in love with your bliss. Crimson, light kisses are kept crisp those because they, she has curves and kosher. You know, I got hands made the whole room like hostess or used them to can and hold you to my bedroom wall. But the rest of my bedroom, posters, legs, and all of them are showed us. We have no use for limelight. See the way you shine bright, because if you eat glitter for breakfast, we don't conquer the world. We're too busy. Conquering worlds as if we were never slaves, no surfboards, no hands. And we don't hang 10 or rod coming, how many highways? But instead we vibrate at the same frequency. I call that an OSHA light being plus the way our bodies become celestial and the way our Vive stream. I told you to show me your mind. So we took a walk in the garden and I became vegan. You got a majestic flower look, I don't want to be Harland, but you can get all of my pocket. We took a walk in your garden and I seen no internal metamorphosis remind metaphors committed morph, insecurities of the deepest submitted morphic purities. My craft comes daily when I'm inspired by you. My pain becomes a swore. When I'm speaking, when I'm writing botching and Watson becomes a weapon. When I'm writing about you, random bodies, love poet. When I do talk about love, it has to revolve around me. You told me to show you my mind. So I had to read you this. I call it my heavenly gardens list.

Speaker 1:

That was beautiful. Thank you. So sorry for yelling, but that was no one day last year. Favorite?

Speaker 2:

A lot of just painted pictures.

Speaker 1:

Yes. I love it. How do you, how can you recite from memory? Like how

Speaker 2:

Practice, practice, practice, like anything else. And then like when I'm writing it, I'm saying it over and over and over so many times.

Speaker 1:

I love it. Do the, does the crowd love it too? I think it's amazing. Um, so what do you want your legacy to look like?

Speaker 2:

I want my legacy to look like, to look inspirational, to look like, you know, like I care, like I gave a about my life and other people's lives. Like you feel me? Like, I want people to know that, you know, um, I want it to give back. I want it to teach. I want it to inspire, motivate my legacy to look like if legacy was a person, it would be Batman,

Speaker 1:

Batman. Okay. You care to elaborate. Uh,

Speaker 2:

You know, Batman is about bad luck. I had everybody in DC. I'll say Batman. Um, his personality, his, his, his, his quick judgment. Decision-making Batman is just the baddest. Nope, Nope, no real particular reason. It's just that, that man just tends to just stand out. It just, he just stands out to me as a character or my legacy to stand out as a legacy.

Speaker 1:

I love that. And I hope that Ohio sees it and the rest of the world sees it because you all the time,

Speaker 2:

I appreciate you yell. You, you, you helping Marilyn see it, anybody else, you know, outside of the state. So I appreciate it.

Speaker 1:

Oh, of course I try my best because I just think, I just think other people, even outside the DMV are we, we all got to connect. So exactly. So I'm glad. And I hope that your people see it and my people see it and share with their people.

Speaker 2:

It's definitely, it's going to happen

Speaker 1:

It better happening, but thank you so much, Nick, for being here and for just being amazing and keep on writing your poetry. And I hope that that arcade that you want to build will be okay.

Speaker 2:

I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I hope you, and all your endeavors, um, last and then boom, hope this hope this connection right here continues and I hope, you know, hope your podcast does phenomenal.

Speaker 1:

Thank you so much. Hey. Yeah. So thank you. If you guys reach to the end of this episode, I really appreciate it. Share what you're handling your friends and yeah.

Speaker 2:

That is your jacket in your friends.

Speaker 1:

Thank you again, Nick, and be safe going home if you're not home. And, um, yeah, of course. Alright. Y'all well,