reparations
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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…
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“Craziness is no act / Not to act is craziness”
“In Baraka’s world, love of human liberation and the struggle for it is exalted.” Alexs Pate