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Bob Holman: We Are the Dinosaur

Written & performed by Bob Holman | ‪@bobholmanpoet‬ Filmed & edited by H. Paul Moon | ‪@zenviolence‬ Music by Marc Ribot & Brad Jones | ‪@marcribotmusic‬ Associate director Kyabell Glass | https://x.com/whsprngs "We Are the Dinosaur" is a street-rant lament for the state of the planet delivered to an unsuspecting public seemingly content to yawn and go about its business while the Poet bumrushes the Courthouse, whispers in the ear of the Anonymous Businessman, suggests a cannibal diet at the site of the Nation’s first capital, takes flight at the Oculus near the World Trade Center, and swims against the implacable tide of humanity in Times Square. With a wrench-raucous score by Marc Ribot, energized-intrusion cinematography by director H. Paul Moon, and an over-the-top-and-then-some performance by poet Bob Holman, this poem promises to either explode the dead-soul reactions of the populace to climate crisis or become a deconstructive language bomb that blasts open the Gates to Kingdom Come. An official selection/finalist in the 2023 Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany), Midwest Video Poetry Fest (Madison, Wisconsin), Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival (Wellington, New Zealand), Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival Vienna (Austria), VideoBardo Festival Internacional de Videopoesía (Buenos Aires, Argentina); and 2024 11th International Video Poetry Festival (Athens, Greece), Weimar Poetry Film Award (Germany), La Poesia Che Si Vede (Italy), POET FILM STAGE (Los Angeles, California); Hombres Videopoetry Award (Italy) where it won Best Performance; and 2025 Venice Biennale: https://www.labiennale.org/en/theatre... WE ARE THE DINOSAUR by Bob Holman Blast open the gates to kingdom come! Whoops, what happened to everyone? Planted a seed — Grew into a gun Dum de dum dum dum dum dum dumb Life is a riot living in a cartoon Ice-age in a dumpster - that’s our living room Set fire to your roof - get a better view Global warming is a warning - toodle-oo We are the dinosaur We don’t live here anymore We got what we were asking for Follow the dinosaur! Ho ho homo sapiens Ain’t so smart Ka ka kamikazi, Friend Which way is the ark? The whole world is dialing 911 The Don’t Walk sign just changed to You Better Run What we are waiting for has long since come Dum-de-dum dum dumm dum dum Cross the scorching sands with my big fat feet It’s hard becoming diesel fuel with nothin to eat Better catch us quick - we’re outta here We’re pre-winged birds & tend to disappear Hurry, disappear! Back to the Past! Did you really think the Future was gonna last? It’s ending with a bang so let’s have a blast Let’s dine cannibal - makes a nice contrast Chauffeured ambulances race to the prom Santa, please bring me a neutron bomb What a fitting ending for a planet, the earth is a grave But please excuse me — I gotta get back to my cave We are the dinosaur We don’t live here anymore We got what we were asking for Follow the dinosaur! BIO OF THE POET & PERFORMER: Founder of the Bowery Poetry Club and the spoken word label Mouth Almighty/Mercury, Bob Holman is a poet best known for his defining role in the spoken word, slam, digital and film/video worlds. His films include the Poetry Spots series for WNYC-TV (six years, 3 Emmys), a 5-part series The United States of Poetry on PBS and Language Matters, a documentary on poetry and endangered languages, also on PBS. He has read his work on MTV’s Spoken Word Unplugged and HBO Def Poetry Jam and has published a dozen books, most recently Bob Holman’s India Journals that documents the making of Ginsberg’s Karma, a film about the Beats in India and the birth of the hippie movement. He has three children and five grandchildren and lives above the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.