Author Archives: aidarends

“Hey. I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live. Work, huh? But. Is not city open. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?” – Pete (Louis Zorich), a Manhattan restaurateur, to Kermit the Frog, offering perhaps theContinue reading “Chronological Snobbery: The Peoples is Peoples Speech (The Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984)”

the wedding was postponed not for lack of love but the abundance of it we wanted courtship to go on and on and on wedding was postponed cuz we wanted to keep each other closer than bonds of servitude the ring was scrapped and made into necklaces that still hang and we hangin on toContinue reading “the wedding was postponed”

the ghost of ellis come to me at nightscream-in my ear bout all not right can’t stand stay this way of living cuz I’m from black upbringing the ghost of alton croon to me about all that life could really be never never got the right to say never really got the chance to doContinue reading “a poem for alton ellis”

I make like quick with my hands and be finding new things in stands In field afar from home where I came from I found you sit-in’ pretty lookin lovey dovey peace out peace in be in be out of work of love of life of time of now is the time to be hereContinue reading “keep it comin”

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The best black music happens in secret. — Read on harmonyholiday.substack.com/p/miss-brown-to-you-billie-holiday

fuck are you talking aboutlotsa shit is carried out against us on a daily bases like hey batter swingthree strikes we’re outside again hopefully soon cuz time is essentiallyout of grasp i feel a new one comin let’s not sit this one out i hate the american in me whose metaphors is sheusing? let’s notContinue reading “let’s not sit this one out”