in the benches of her ribs he searched for a door a keyhole, the building wherever she kept it spent years in the parking lotin a sky of patience the engine still running a fume possessed air the windows up leather sweating his skin honking the horn her body was a noisy city too many streets with no names no one would listen until one…
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“It Could Be You” by SunSay Ladies & Gentlemen, if only I could really convey all the excitement I have for Sunsay’s english album! I had the honor of witnessing and participating in it being made in a beautiful castle set in France. I am so amazed by this incredible voice box and all of the beautiful people surrounding him. Please please watch this and…
The art of detachment She woke up pacinga postponed bloodbath cramps and curves a head full of twisted nights and Barbes fabric gypsy silhouette leaking emotions faucet of telephone coffins sent overseas anticipating the sweet release of licking skin chocolat in morning peeling in showers sipping on spiced tea waiting to exhale on Rue du Faubourg St Denis.
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the audacity of imitating suffering wealthy with despair uphill dance of dizzying daunting aura of smoke the devilish proclamation for her happiness does not speak does not know how to spell the careful concern or how to decipher good intentions… I’ve watched a rotten thing dressed as a woman fester into an insecure smile bewitched and broom struck a bed of snakes and used condoms she lay,…
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David Banner speaks on Trayvon Martin! (yes, yes, yes, and yes!) The past few weeks have revealed a lot about the contemporary American spectacle, the power of immediate sensationalism, and the misplaced energy involving Trayvon Martin. I have been sharing in conversation with expats here in Paris on their interpretation of all that has been taking place in recent media attention and what distance provides…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxmtUFrji48 just because…Janet Jackson (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Angela Davis: “Dreaming in French” “Davis is by far the most fluent and most vital of the three. Just watch her speaking French. She had a point to make which had nothing to do with making herself seem smart or cool or beautiful or elegant or the greatest speaker of French, even. And yet Davis is all of these things. The intensity of her desire to understand,…
"Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son — lynched?" — Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett Til
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwC0KUNZ43E “why dont you relocate your soul” @immortaltech (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
“and if it is true that your invention reveals you…” – james baldwin via rac (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)