“I have been teaching her love all of her life, and all that I ask is that you continue the lesson”
It’s not often you’ll hear Team Her.ie raving about a poetry slam, but after this we may just have to go to one.
This is Jesse Parent. A couple of weeks ago he delivered this partly hilarious, partly heart-warming and partly terrifying poem at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. In the time since, his performance has been viewed over a million times on YouTube. You’ll see why.