Intro by Brandon Brown

I was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1993 and I've lived in central Ohio my entire life. I moved to Powell in 1999, when it was about half the size it is today. I've gone to Olentangy Schools since I was in kindergarten, went to high school at Olentangy Liberty. I love to play guitar, I have two electrics and one acoustic/electric. I tend to play anything from heavy metal, such as Metallica or Disturbed, but I also play much lighter stuff such as Led Zeppelin. I played football my freshman and senior years in high school, ran cross country my junior year, and ran track all four years. I love to watch football, baseball, and I used to love watching basketball when LeBron was in Cleveland. My favorite teams are Ohio State, the Cleveland Browns, the Cincinnati Reds and the Cleveland Cavaliers. I am also a fan of the Buffalo Sabres, but I really don't watch hockey too often.

When I was brainstorming my poem, the one thing that caught my eye was the sharing of an experience part. Recently I went on a trip to Destin, Florida where me and my two best friends had the best week of our lives. We are trying to make it an annual trip, and we can't stop thinking about it. Since it was on my mind, I picked it, and I decided to make as a tribute to both my friends, instead of picking just one. I was surprised by how quickly I wrote it (a little less than an hour), and that I didn't really have to make many changes. I didn't really know how it was gonna turn out, but I have done songwriting, so I figured it would be similar. I really wasn't gonna try to make it rhyme, but it just naturally came out like that. There is a lot of  inside stuff that only me and my friends my understand. Anyway, here it is:

Emerald green sea

White sand beach

The fun we had

That one great week

The three stooges

Troy once said

‘Cause we weren’t known

To use our heads

“What’s up Whataburger!”

And midnight pong

Volleyball girls

And Shaggy’s song

Ocean pissing

Away our cares

Two girls, a whale

And truth or dare

Young, dumb, drunk

We envy in vain

Now we’re too far

Away from our place

Everyday we’re closer

Six months to go

Wait like a stone

Since six months ago

Every time we meet

We cannot wait

To talk about Destin

A week so great