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“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”

you can do anything you want if you don’t believe in yourself i accidentally tripped on purpose until i was divided by my other halfkick it to me one more twicehow u don’t luv me and you’re so nicei fell into the up above from a push that was a shovei died laughing from howContinue reading “terms and contradictions”

i love when you step into your idealsgod you’re such the picture perfect citizenwe’ve all been waiting so long for youlost track of the time sipping coffeewishing for a totally immaculate love affairand not knowing how to get there no placeand in a hurry to forget how it happenedwith washing machines rusting in the backitContinue reading “perfect”

mimi dances with me and we swiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing hand in hand centrifugal splish splash hey where r u? text me back dnt want u to be sad u die or cry or laff in these days buzz with possibility with inevitability hey miss u i miss u too your voice yeah? is what keeps me keepContinue reading “mimi dances with me”