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Old 11-25-2006, 12:37 AM   #1
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Amiri Baraka

And something other than Somebody Blew up America...

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.
Or the broad edged silly music the wind
Makes when I run for a bus...

Things have come to that.

And now, each night I count the stars.
And each night I get the same number.
And when they will not come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.

Nobody sings anymore.

And then last night I tiptoed up
To my daughter's room and heard her
Talking to someone, and when I opened
The door, there was no one there...
Only she on her knees, peeking into

Her own clasped hands


Wise I

WHYS (Nobody Knows
The Trouble I Seen)
Traditional

If you ever find
yourself, some where
lost and surrounded
by enemies
who won't let you
speak in your own language
who destroy your statues
& instruments, who ban
your omm bomm ba boom
then you are in trouble
deep trouble
they ban your
own boom ba boom
you in deep deep
trouble

humph!

probably take you several hundred years
to get
out!
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Old 11-25-2006, 02:14 AM   #2
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aka angry black man poetry... i read one of his books. it was iight.
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Old 11-25-2006, 11:39 AM   #3
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I like the picture you have with him on facebook..?
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Old 11-29-2006, 12:43 PM   #4
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I like the picture you have with him on facebook..?
What can I say?
It is better to have loved and lost
Than to put linoleum in your living room?

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i read one of his books. it was iight.
Which? I've not read an entire book, but I perused a few of his poetry collections back in 2nd year, and have a copy of Transbluesency.

And I wouldn't classify Baraka as "angry black man poetry." He certainly can be an angry black man, and he certainly voices a strong dissatisfaction with race in the US, but he also discusses a number of matters which are relevant to more than just the black community, including the aforementioned racial/political/cultural dissatisfactions. It's disheartening when people grapevine an issue because they're the concerns of an angry black man.
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