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Suheir Hammad | Daddy’s Song
As a 24 year old male, this is probably going to make me sound like a big wimp, but I don’t care, because Suheir Hammad’s poems seem to be the only thing that have the ability to draw a tear from my eye these days. Of course, I will immediately pretend something is caught in [...]
Inshallah
Some people work and become wealthy. Others do the same and remain poor. Marriage fills one with energy. Another, it drains. Don’t trust ways. They change. A means flails about like a donkey’s tail. So always add the gratitude clause: ‘if God wills’. Then proceed. You may be leading a donkey, no, a goat, no, [...]
The Spiritual Windowshopper?
These spiritual windowshoppers, who idly ask, How much is that? Oh, I’m just looking. They handle a hundred items and put them down, Shadows with no capital. What is spent is love And two eyes wet with weeping. But these walk into a shop, And their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment, In that [...]
Time Is A Grizzly Bear
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by the bear. – A. E. Housman
Our Father Which are in Heaven White man owe me eleven and pay me seven Thy kingdom come Thy will be done And if I hadn’t took that I wouldn’ta get None – Negro Folk Secular Modern slavery? nuff said.
My Mental Lawsuits Lately
Understanding the physics of God, His Indivisible Nature, Makes every universe and atom confess: I am just a helpless puppet that cannot dance Without the movement of His hand. Dear ones, This curriculum tonight is for the advanced And Will Get All The blame straight … End the mental Lawsuits That Clog The Brain H [...]
Find A Better Job
Now That All your worry Has proven such an Unlucrative Business, Why Not Find a better Job ? – Hafiz
Before Hip Hop
Before Hip Hop there was Nat King Cole Sugar Ray and Miles. Cool was how you held a cigarette between fingers or entered a ring or simply found your stage and turned your back to the world. – E. Ethelbert Miller
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