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     Chris Hayden Rating: |
Live in America Serious theater Serious serious theater Hearin serious searin theater Serious theater Live in America Raps of Ahnk mind Science dropped from wiggy Levant American mop Serious theater Daddy sang Sam Cooke's "A Change Gon' Come" Mamma def jammin serious Nueva York theater Queen Suheir Bee Bop 'n Du D'Funky Broadway Sweet lily of the Great White Way perfume Gotham Canyon dreams Bathes in Mahattan Field of Dream electric light blaze Sashays up 'n downstage Blindin Blindin So bright you got to feel the people out there Seekin Serious theater Hip hop honey-toned Calliope Born Palestinian Born Black hold high the flag slips slick licks To Melpomene and Thespis Fly Chicks shake hips purse African lips Satchmo say "Dat cat Dionysus Strollin pimp rollin down Fulton Street Most Gold and azure Brooklyn afternoons Muses do rockinneck minuet Snapp on blue Nuyorican Moons Green poets roll souls cross Loisada craptables Seven cum 'leven in the Village In Washington Park Enter stage left the 9 the 9 the 9 The glorious gorgeous nine almightee Powermen and Iron fist wimmen 9 Divine Doorways of perception open on South Bronx On Harlem O how they shake and fingerpop Queen Suheir All Genuwine baybee Ain't scrawlin on napkin bawlin drunk doggerel No rapper wannabe be she Mamma got her papers Mamma got game and craft Same tradition as Homer As the Slam Praise Nikki and Langston Ginsberg and Bob Holman Method for days-o Baraka Wilson Shange and Mikey Pinero Distillin serious theater Rundown language people understand And the script be flipt Plain and proud they fell Flipped be the script Keepin in Angry Keepin it Real Flip da script 9/11 scarred Big Apple--HEAL Dap each other up real foine and proppa Queen Suheir you got WORDS --affirm life, affirm life, we got to affirm life- Du D'Funky Broadway And bring Serious theater Live in America | ||
| faye Rating: N/A |
All I can say is DAMN! That was a soup of cosmic timesplitting proportions. I was taken aback then brought to the present presented with poetry so eloquently stated - Boy, I swear my soul vibrated. Goosebumps bumped and a tear came to me eye!!! That Jont' was FLY!! DAMN!!! |
