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‘Leadbelly Gives an Autograph’ by Amiri Baraka

Pat your foot and turn the corner. Nat Turner, dying wood of the church. Our lot is vacant. Bring the twisted myth of speech. The boards brown and falling away. The metal bannisters cheap and rattly. Clean new Sundays. We thought it possible to enter the way of the strongest. But it is rite that…

July 16, 2018

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

african american poetry, amiri baraka, beat, black nationalist, blues, leadbelly, leroi jones, music, other people’s poetry, poem, reparations

L’âge de la Faim pour Soi-Même

American Sentence, No. 5 Truth avenges recreation, the snail criticizes its jet shell.

June 2, 2017

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

allen ginsberg, american sentence, art, beat, Culture, form, haiku, photography, Self-Awareness, society

Wikipedia Poem, No. 401

think got drink got drink got had totalitarian-type and said decide to rush back which i didn’t think i got a drink got drunk i had a charley low and sad said how do you know she whores i had a chance to decide tonight be a sucker doll where thru the railroad earth…

February 14, 2017

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

addiction, alcoholism, art, beat, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Kerouac, jazz, poetry, Steve Allen

experimental meditation poem, no. 1

I lost it what is it objects mean where is it happening what him her shrinking away from the window what does it mean him her you keep saying it but what does it mean him her him her him 1,000,000 miles away closer closer closer closer closer a million miles away just stayed away…

April 3, 2014

Joseph M. Gerace

poetry

advice, beat, children, college, dad, father, insecurity, meditation, mindfulness, mom, mother, parenting, poem, poetry, relationships