Mi(tsa) And I guess I am not the most qualified to talk and perhaps that is my undoing's core I can think of big, scary events that make us gather in the streets or in white naked squares helpless to the gaze designed for great speeches, markets and parades for the troops, the students, the peaceful and the free citizens that pace for individual growth and change thorougly wash their hands and clean their face and tho I liked your passion for our common democratic state I can't but see the lines that orient and those that erase what is censorship? The state that in one evening shuts the public media station that used to serve the unified nation while it shouldn't that station that has been framing illegal the migration and talks about terrorists and lazy and unskilled the official fines for gay kisses on prime tv the thankful tollerance as long as we're unseen the murder of the sick body in the middle of the day in the heart of the center by the presence of the crowd by the aknowledged and the accepted and the normal whose violence sets who is normal and abnormal what is censorship? The idea that I am someone else rather than me _____________________________________________________________________________ Miri I have been doing this since years And I find it interesting That after a show people come up to me and thank me for making them laugh or for making them feel touched just for making them feel something and I asked myself if that is what we’re doing here Artists make people feel something like, if you wanna laugh, you go to a comedy night and if you wanna feel sad, then you might watch this very sad movie and poetry could make you feel nostalgic and so on and that just made me think, like, art is like a shopping catalogue for feelings and you can buy whatever you want You call us performers, I call us dealers for emotions, you wanna see us perform in motion like hyenas We are here to fill arenas Our stage is like a shopping catalog Choose to buy what you were looking for Everyone is coming by Tell me your needs I'm gonna comply Because I can do it all and you would be surprised Because this mind is as deep as your self esteem And that's also why they call me the machine I can give you tears, I can give you rage when I come on stage Scene is set, you’re my marionettes And the show begins Pulling strings like a violin My ego is a diamond ring I’ll let you feel what you paid for meet the machine you were waiting for Culture saves us on a daily basis I know enough faces that can make it go to my homie, he knows how to phrase it when you’re lonely, read his poetry My friends are making art here, breaking hearts here making music that is too sick I know painters and entertainers and creators and animators Forget the haters of labor that does the haters a favor By giving them the feels everyday We're just fulfilling needs here, being low paid It’s always worth to spend some money On the words leaving my mouth, honey Standing ovation in a basement big applause, no replacement for the big names in the small spaces and the small names are never displaced People are hungry, they wanna see mommy Mommy’s gotta feed them, like a Tsunami Gobble the air coming outta my mouth I model the sphere, I model the crowd You wanna hear my wit and my thoughts give me applause, I’m not gonna pause Try to stop me, it’s your loss But if we tryna censor art, what is left to discuss