I'm Perry from Santa Barbara and I support the slowdown. Meeting a wide diversity of poets

in their outstanding poems takes my mind and heart to a higher place. A truth that feeds

my day away from the debilitating misinformation or the plagues us. Join me by making a gift

to the slowdown today. Go to slowdownshow.org slash donate.

I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown. This week we're doing something special.

We're exploring poetry in all of its forms with kids who write, rhyme, and sing about

their lives. And today we're exploring words and music with our co-host Jasper. Jasper

is 13 years old. He plays a guitar, loves cantaloupe, and sometimes throws tea parties with

his friends. And the tea parties that I do are like these things where I get my friends

together. We buy a bunch of snacks, sit down at a table or a bench, and just listen to music

and talk about life. Honestly, I don't know why we all aren't celebrating

tea time. Something sweet, tell your wet friends. When Jasper is not sipping tea, he's playing

music, including songs he's written.

The day is finally turned around and today I realize I won't make out the day I know like

I wanted to see that is the day when I walked through the museum the day of us of everything

leading up to this point in our lives. I think the best pair is you and I.

Jasper considers himself to be more of a lyricist than a poet because he writes the words to

his songs. But lyrics are poetry too.

Hey Jasper, thank you for joining me in the studio today.

Sure thing. So I was reading and listening to a song that you wrote called

Museum and I wanted to know do you have a favorite line from that song?

I think my favorite line from the song is in the second verse where it says if I could take back

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