Category Archives: That New Millennium Dime

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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landless

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

(Art by Karen Seneferu in honor of Kemba “Walking Tree” Shakur at the Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland CA) landless gentrified ghetto children in the inner city got grand parents from the country grandparents moved to the city for a … Continue reading →

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99 Swang / That New Millenium Dime

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

99 sheep woke up/came in from the toxic fields/in search of a song/full of tic bites/wolves against no walls/on a come up/calling bluffs/tea parties full of donkeys&elephants 99 sheep/infiltrated/media affiliated/99 sheep awake/from a long slow dance/a tango w/existence insistent on voicing the relevant/trying … Continue reading →

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A Song for Dirt & Water from “That New Millennium Dime”

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

this is a song for dirt & water star dust & tears a dark cosmic prayer for redeemption help us forget what we never needed to know someone beat the drum slowly/find the road we are ready to go must … Continue reading →

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Dirt – From That New Millennium Dime

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

the people /slowly returning/to the land/ slowly/ slow food /looking for sustenance in the sustainable green ways/leaning on unknowing/relearning/undoing re/remembering what we never should have forgotten/ from dust to dust/how we forget that/2/3’s water/how we forget that/god alchemy/mimic nature/ gods … Continue reading →

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June 2011, & X @ 67

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

June 2011   Superman went home followed by Geronimo Pratt Tears and struggle from Harlem to Tanzania Souls set free from heavy bodies X’s wisdom brightens the midnight sky in Babylon as we remember Sun Ra in the laughter of … Continue reading →

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That New Millennium Dime, Dreams, Installment 18

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

the dead visit often/i no longer fear them/some i know at once/even if i never knew them /others introduce themselves/ they bring things/ riddles/secrets/dreams of fire/memories/instructions/prophecy & the keys/they warn/they rail & rant at the bedside/they wander through the house/some … Continue reading →

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That New Millennium Dime, Money, Installment 17

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

/money/ man made/not god given/god gives/man sells/ cant own nothing/didnt bring nothing with him/cant take nothing with him/god gave/god gave nature/nature gives/man sells/cant take nothing with him/not even the money/man made/ u only take what u brought /cant take the … Continue reading →

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That New Millennium Dime: The Dime

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD

That New Millennium Dime; a work that interrogates the dawn of a new century in America and the era of its first North American African president. Continue reading →

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