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"staring at the edge of his unlit cigarette
I search for answers
I wait for clarity
and or flames
hidden among the lessons
in the stories
he pulls from his pockets
like peppermint candy
covered with lint" -Frank X. Walker

"his stories
floating in the air
like vapor photographs" -Frank X. Walker

"we stood
at the edge of the road
in Clifton
looking out at the
wide wet mirror
that divided
one county from the next
absence from forgiveness
then spoke and laughed
in unison
like twins
like a small choir
singing psalms." -Frank X. Walker

"Like the moon, we on the earth
takin' a ride around the sun
my son, we only just begun
& the journey's far from done
we on a mission,
watch yuh brain' 'gone fishin'
like Walter Mosley" -Talib Kweli

"my life is authored by the moon
foot prints written in soil:
the fountain pen of martian men
novelling human toil..." -saul williams








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