There's very few times in our adult lives

where another adult gives you a pen and some paper

or a marker and some newspapers and says,

you got 10 minutes, make me something.

And I am just always blown away

whenever a group of adults does blackout poetry.

The results are amazing.

You know, you see people, you see that concentration

when it comes on their faces, they look like kids again.

You know, kids when they're playing,

people think, oh, kids playing, what a great thing.

No, kids are intensely serious when they're playing.

You know, like my son gets so frustrated

and kind of zoomed in to what he's doing when he's playing.

Sometimes you wonder, like, is he torturing himself?

You know, but he takes his play so seriously.

You know, he has this look of concentration

when he's like pushing his cars around and stuff.

And adults get that same look on their face

like when they're doing the blackout poems.

And it's probably like doing a crossword or something, you know,

but they get this in the zone of concentration.

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