the years i was a threat to myselfwas long hard aching yearsthe years i gave to the machinewas mean lean greasing thingsthe years i didn’t know the landwas wrong wrong sour sand the fears the tears the yellow yearswas smears on the conscience was smelting orange jeersi was going and denying myself lifeitself was dyingContinue reading “the years”
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on the hill
he came running for his baeon the hill of the park where she layhaving taken a tumble she was splayedbleeding from her head in the middle of the day“the dog knocked me over”“and i’m bleeding and i’ve lost”“an air pod”curly haired duderbespectacled and concernedleaned into the ambulance reassuring her“i’ll be there before you get there”“i’mContinue reading “on the hill”
mess sea haikus
how who what we love necessary what we are abajo! up? no. you don’t need to kill journalist so much when you pay off so many in your opinion what is the mostest pressing systemic issue? one two three four five one two three four five six sev one toe three four five i amContinue reading “mess sea haikus”
Revoke the Inter Caetera Bull
“Indian people are denied their rights today simply because they were not Christians at the time of European arrival. Shawnee/Lenape legal scholar Steven Newcomb raised more than a few eyebrows when he made that statement at the Parliament of World Religions, held in Chicago in early September. The historic parliament was attended by more thanContinue reading “Revoke the Inter Caetera Bull”
Quote of the Week – July 13
“i will not be a typist in the war“ – Thulani Davis
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies — Read on http://www.junejordan.net/i-must-become-a-menace-to-my-enemies.html
Quote of the Week – July 6
“The bourgeois idealists realize that the larger becomes the section of exploited people who take part in active political struggles, the more acute will these struggles become; and all the more reason will there be for misgivings about the fate of capitalism.” – Claudia Jones
signs and signals ii
I AM BLACK AND I AM NOT A JOKE SHIPPING RECEIVING CAUTION!UCRYBEFORE STR8 NOMASS UTTLE BUSES VERYGANGSTERWE’RE HIRINGPUNKSWE’RE HIRINGBUS DRIVERSQUE HACERENFRENTE DEUN ESTADOASESINO?
o pacific
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Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: “I Felt Like We Had Been Bamboozled In That Integrationist Moment” – Mary Helen Washington on Gwendolyn Brooks and The Other Blacklist
In this conversation we specifically focus on the work of Gwendolyn Brooks prior to her joining the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960’s, within the Black cultural and literary left that Washington analyzes in The Other Blacklist. — Read on millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/i-felt-like-we-had-been-bamboozled-in-that-integrationist-moment-mary-helen-washington-on-gwendolyn-brooks-and-the-other-blacklist
Aida Rends 