After one soul-scraping, innocence-grabbing listen to any of her three Roots album appearances, you need hours to recover from deep melancholia and months to be able to listen to the track again. I would really like to hear her do a happy poem.
*************************************** "Living in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (read his book "Strength to Love")
"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow, I fear no man because FAITH is the arrow" -Mos Def, "Know That"