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they are smiling like its a celebration, i can hear an applause through the rope and bulging eyes and distant cries of the innocent and the guilty and time... things havent changed as much as one would love to believe
to give us a few more acres and an ass ain't reparations, to tip the earth on its axis and rearrange space-time wouldnt be enough for the bloody necks, the deferred dreams the unaswered cries of the afro-american dream drenched in a middle passage nightmare.
show me a plantation and i'll show you and urban re-concentration camp, shadowed by skyline and paycheck and affirmative action and the "right" to vote for bobbing heads in an ocean of white lies
cut the fucking rope, tie the children of the lost souls that thought hatred was the right of a God that was made in "our" image.
strange fruit grows on dead trees, but the root of madness is not of the soil which holds the stories of darkened flesh,
tamed only by the complacency of forgetting...
the struggle is so alive, we try to kill it everyday with nothing but
more strange fruit.
RIP (the 400-year black man woman bastard children of american blood boiling hypocrisy drowning out the voices of the white curse)...peace. love. a light above all...darkness...living.
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she loves me...more than she knows.
exist in limbo.
"when my love comes to see me it’s just a little like music,a little more like curving colour(say orange) against silence,or darkness…" -e.e. cummings
"we are accidents waiting to happen" -radiohead
"Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It’s a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault." -Yusef Komunyakaa
"The Black Artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it. His role is to report and reflect so precisely the nature of the society, and of himself in that society, that other men will be moved by the exactness of his rendering and, if they are black men, grow strong through this moving, having seen their own strength, and weakness; and if they are white men, tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil."
-Amiri Baraka, from "State/meant" in the essay, "Home"
"My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love thee?...Imagine." -Saul Williams
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myself is sculptor of your body’s idiom: the musician of your wrists; the poet who is afraid only to mistranslate a rhythm in your hair... -E.E. Cummings
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