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Aja Monet

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5w4FShx-s8 LOVE HER, she’s the coolest First Lady EVER! Vid 1 of 3 Click Here to Watch Vid 2 Click Here to Watch Vid 3 (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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“Those thrown overboard had overhead the mysteries of the undertow and understood that down below there would be no more chains…” -@SaulWilliams (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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you said, i promise.as if growth were a plane ticketstretch, hop, skip, and jump away  as if the earthquake fury of your bodycould hold a word so topsy turvyso truly unsure of itself.you said, i’ll never be my mother.surely you must’ve learnedto push people awayfrom somewhere.we’ll pretend not to noticeall the empty roomsyou splatter within.we’ll dance our stomachsraw with illusion smoke sweet slithers of denial,your…
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The Politics of Fiction by Elif Shafak (author of 40 Rules of Love—one of my favorite books) “Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.” –The Forty Rules of Love (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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scared to make love/scared not to  photo by @mikeschreiber www.ajamonet.bandcamp.com www.mikeschreiber.com 

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When you starting creating poetry, what was your initial intention? Was it for your own personal healing or to join the literary movement and change the world or neither?

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neither. writing was the first thing i remember being told i was good at. i loved reading but didnt have the discipline to write a novel. i started with fragments of stories. they became poems out of the fascination with lyricism and my elementry introduction to other poets began to create a context for what i was doing. eventually, the therapy of it all gave…
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