You’re how we found The Maverick Room,
The Cave Yard, The Black Hole, and block parties
In hard-to-find inner city neighborhoods
With names like Congress Heights & Valley Green.
You’re The Real McCoy,
What we used to teach timid beginners to hit back.
When the power went out you gathered kin,
A family discussion of percussion:
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Understanding the New Genuine Negro Hero
Appreciates us, our range of high worries and low joys breaking wholeness into flava —the folk and uppity nuances of "being black" not "blackness" from the triflin' to the bougie, […]
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We got them the hard way, Taking turns holding recorders Filled with the weight of D batteries On our shoulders. We pressed PLAY & RECORD, Ready to release PAUSE Already […]
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