Category Archives: I’m Just Saying!

Roll Call

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

…you with us or you not

speak now or mumble on

& that’s what we’ll put in the song…
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#youwillnotkillmetoday (NPM2017 20)

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

death will come on the day it wants dressed as it pleases at the time he chooses death will come of that there is little doubt how it will be received is the matter here #youwillnotkillmetoday with ignorance because you … Continue reading →

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1 if by faith (NPM 2017 19)

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

  1 if by faith lined up next to none talking about chances found rolling down hill looking for a way up out of no way 1 if by faith best intentions with the devil over your shoulder young bucks … Continue reading →

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At the Berkeley Flea (NPM 2017 18)

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

scribed in their blood

by ancient rhythm older than

the city they drum in Continue reading →

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neither wolf nor sheep (NPM2017 11 )

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

prophets are often thrown into the lion’s den not knowing true lions are friends to guerilla’s in your midst seeking higher paths upholding righteousness invested in the movement of the pendulum that signifies the moral arc go ask Daniel go … Continue reading →

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first language (NPM2017 # 7)

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

one dreams in first language it is the language of prayer first language is where your soul lives where home is when it’s raining fire it’s where we land after falling through the ground we grow from the cathedral that … Continue reading →

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xodus: the requiem #1 ballad of struggle seed

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

struggle seed plays through the narrative like pain oozing from piano keyz underwater bluz the weight of destiny born eyes open privileged to see I never close my eyes ancestors talk to me even if I wanted sleep its test … Continue reading →

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black and white (NPM2017 # 4)

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

imagine me as i am fiercely beautiful a black and white negative growing in the shade of contempt like a desert rose fragrant in the funk of it unbowed refusing to be broken being everything else and then some more … Continue reading →

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discomfort (NPM2017 # 3)

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

i tried to paint the picture they shuddered i needed them to see they averted their eyes i needed them to hear they put their hands over their ears they say they want to understand but they can’t stay in … Continue reading →

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in the beginning (NPM2017 # 1)

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

in the beginning before the day wakes up i am whole dreaming the world as it should be i fly in my dreams i can see in dreams the dead whisper in dreams i listen they have let go of … Continue reading →

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