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Chris Hayden

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Posted on Saturday, December 14, 2002 - 11:26 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

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
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faye

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Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 02:54 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

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!!!

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