Sunday, October 3, 2010

#3 Preview of Poetry Issue, Journal of Pan African Studies




Amiri Baraka


Listening Again to Shani Laughing

What loss

In yr life, like losing life

For yr life is touched with all lives

What is closer than the life

You give, what loss greater

Than the life you gave, the life

Inside

What loss is deeper, what pain more horrible

None, none, there is

None…

2

Shani had a perfect idea

Of her self

She knew exactly what her self

Her perfect little self

Shd be

And she beed it

3

I tell you Evil

Is the reverse

Of what is live

Not just death, but

Something that can never

Live.

4

Not the thought

Of dying

But of never having

Been alive

That is the craziness

That haunts

Things that want

Yr life

3/24/07

-Amiri Baraka

photo of AB by Kamau Amen Ra

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