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Son de Negros en Cuba, in Spanish. “Son” is a Cuban musical genre (think African beat, Iberian melody). It also translates as “ are.” Song of negroes… Federico Garcia Lorca: Song of Negroes in Cuba

there are some people i know whose beauty is a crime. — Read on http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58125/sorcery

based on a prompt from bernadette mayer dance dance dance dance dancehold me close and tell me a secret dance dance dance dance dance be sweet and thoughtful when u candraw us a bubble bath, with lavender a solo traveller’s farewell gifta message that it’s okay to leavewhisper to me “you’re all mine”even tho youContinue reading “ways of making love #1”

i’m so excited for tomorrow and the possibility it bringsi forget about my angerand i begin to sing i’m full to the brim with knowingall the subtle sayingsuntil it’s snowingi begin prayingwhat’s your disease?what’s your damage?tell if you pleaseif u can manage

run me my money hothen we can talk abtwhat’s funny tho?run me my money ore-tribute this honeyso swell u think nou ain’t shit RUN ME MY MONEY HO

“A nice gathering like today is not enough. You have to go back, and reach out to your neighbors who don’t speak to you. And you have to reach out to your friends who think they are making it good, and get them to understand, that they, as well as you and I, can notContinue reading “Happy Birthday Ella Baker”

somebody almost walked off wit alla my stuff

Your children are not your children They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself They come through you but they are not from you And though they are with you, they belong not to you You may give them your love but not your thoughts They have their own thoughts They haveContinue reading “the bird sings | On Children”

black girli’m hereokay?still here. i’m sorryi could not be whatwas needbut noexcusesno moreppl wantu to beneed u to bemore and strong and lover manain’t comin back

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day. — Read on http://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-long-american-counter-revolution/