From Old Marble Notebooks (even though the poem is not an excerpt) A bat, a rat, and a cat all came from animals. Ghoti reads fish, remember the lessons? They say finesse for steal, box for hit, some type of way for emotion, steal on for dupe, play for mess with, lit for exciting, bet […]
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Complicated: A Response to Amiri Baraka’s “Black Arts”
Thank You Because somebody had to do it because words are weapons: fists and daggers, guns. And your guns were not indiscriminate your poems were not bullshit, they were a hot-handed snapshot that hurts liberal eyes almost forty years later just like acid in the face of the enemy. The violence is what the […]