Monthly Archives: October 2014

abundant prosperity

Advertisements I am abundance I manifest yes The universe knows my name I am greeted by blue jays & sparrows followed by crows and video often photographed If you seen my aura you know it glows No big secret there … Continue reading

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Libation (Love over Blood)

Advertisements I have come to offer libation. May I proceed? In the name of the Most High The one who made everything The All Mighty the one who comes before all The one who created the cosmos Creator of the … Continue reading

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lynching tree memoy

Advertisements there are things I can never do i do not take certain things for granted no rose garden only grey tinted glasses blessed with memory too many people afraid to remember least the scars come open pus all over … Continue reading

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Cotton and the Lynching Tree Gang

Advertisements     there was a gang of them holding us down we were no match for such fierce cruelty we fought back best we could but they had friends in high places with last words to say we had … Continue reading

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In the Valley

Advertisements Marching though the American Century Cycle — walking with Wilson every step an education. The pupil praises the teacher and remains dedicated in the quest for overstanding. — We will be made whole. We will remember to remember being … Continue reading

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The American Century Cycle

Advertisements I am often asked why August Wilson? Why did I decide to direct the American Century Cycle? I am producing the America’s greatest playwright’s seminal work in its entirety. I will be the first director to do so in … Continue reading

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Bleaching Cream Blues

Advertisements   early in the morning before the world puts on its face she stands in front of the mirror pinching this poking that pulling on the other she turns slowly counting the ways in which she is not enough … Continue reading

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Visible

Advertisements its not the hoodies or the skittles BART rides not the wallet he pulled out or the comb the cell phone not the toy gun or the raised empty hands perhaps its the kiss of melanin the brown black … Continue reading

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Cotton’s Memory

Advertisements cotton has a memory dreams that never went away a land of cotton with a memory held close like lovers mementos whispered quietly  in board rooms that smell of linen & avarice living quiet lives at the dinner parties … Continue reading

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Phenomenology

Advertisements it is not your imagination its reality invisible unspoken really real for black & brown bodies housed in bruised lives it is an immutable truth bearing down ruthlessly on a harsh reality measured by any standard its not an … Continue reading

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