February 2012
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Sympathy.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass; When the first bird sings and the first bud opes, And the faint perfume from its chalice steals— I know what the caged bird feels! I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the...
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When I Think About Myself.
“When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s walked A song that’s spoke I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.
Sixty years in these folks’ world The child I works for calls me girl, I say “Yes Ma’am” for working’s sake Too proud to bend, Too poor to...
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Change & Leave.
Hurrah i awake from yesterday Alive but the war is here to stay So my love caterina and me Decide to take our last walk Through the noise to the sea Not to die but to be re-born Away from a life so battered and torn….
Jimi Hendrix, 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be.)
On A Jimi Kick.
Not So Dynamite.
“He’s eighteen and he doesn’t work. He can’t read or write. He doesn’t think. The show didn’t start out to be that…Little by little—with the help of the artist, I suppose, because they couldn’t do that to me—they have made J.J. more stupid and enlarged the role. Negative images have been slipped in on us through the character of the oldest...
How scared Gipp? That scared..
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The Good Fight. →
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Black Man's Got No Place...One Man's View.
Brother, back home at the drop of Whitey’s racist frown you are ready to fight to the death, to storm through a hail of bullets to let the man know that he can’t mess around with cats just because they are black. But now, the man puts you in a monkey suit and can dolt on your loyalty. He can do anything to you and all you do is tuck your tail and take the spite out on Colored...