My tea’s gone cold, why I
Got out of bed at all
can’t see at all
It’s not so bad
My tea’s gone cold,
Got out of bed at all
clouds up my window
I can’t see at all
It reminds me, that it’s not so bad
It’s not so bad
was a problem
fuck it
I’m ’bout to be a father
but I’m your biggest fan
your biggest fan
This is Stan
My tea’s gone cold
it’s fucked up don’t answer fans
I chose to write this poem using the song Stan, by Eminem. My thought process for creating this poem was to pick out the lyrics from the song I felt were most telling to the point of the poem. The goal of this poem and I believe Eminem’s song is to emphasize mental illness. Mental illness of any kind is affecting an estimated 60 million adults in the United States alone. I kept lyrics like “wondering why I got out of bed at all.” I went through the song line by line to find the best words and lyrics to keep. To understand the value in this, you must know the backstory behind this song. In the early 2000’s when Eminem was the biggest thing in Rap and Hip Hop, he received many letters from crazed fans and was fed up with it. Presumably many of these crazed letters showed signs of mental deterioration and hysteria. Eminem made this song in response to the influx of letters and it became a hit very fast. The man mentioned in the song and his story are fictional, but it could have just as easily been a real life story. Not only did Eminem want to highlight the dangerous nature of mental illness, but he is also quoted after the release of the song in saying “Not everything I say is to be taken seriously.”
In todays world. mental illnesses are rampant in our population. One in every 8 people have a mental disorder of some kind. That equates to roughly 970 million people worldwide who suffer from a type of mental illness. There is something crazy to think about which is with Eminem’s song Stan, there was actually reported an increase in outreach for help with mental illness after May of 2000. Marshall Mathers saves lives.
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