all this poetry reminds me of a slam

Back in highschool days, the local talent/art/etc. fest put on by a local... organization... featured a young woman who won the poetry slam on the strength of her convictions and the fact that no one had the heart to slap down her cliche'd verse... and i don't know when her birthday is either. but for some reason i'm thinking about her at the present moment. she was about like the one on the left... her name was also Erika. image leeched from Vera B.