Marvin X replies to his star student, Dr. Ayodele Nizinga

Marvin X poetic reply to Ayodele Nzinga Poem

For Linda Johnson, Dance Queen

 We think poets still dancing his poet heaven!

i am the drum beating inviting the dance

i am the drum beating calling the dancer

i am the drum beating

i am the drum

--Ayodele Nzinga

Marvin X Response 

I am the silent dancer

the cool cat by the wall

dancing in his head

til the last dance with his girl

he knows the ritual

last dance 
infinite possibilities

no last dance 
finite possibilities cool cat

I dance

beyond Smokey's Oh, Baby, Baby
later in life the drum calls me 
jungle life love myth-ritual

all is dance

god is dance

love dance

birth dance

death dance

harvest dance

rain dance

war dance

even now fourth quarter I dance

in my head dance
too lazy to move dance

some friends have never seen me dance

but dance in my head always

choreographers amy favorite people

especially interpreters of my poetry
Sun Ra dancers
Judith Wisteria 
Ellendar Barnes
Resurrection of Dead dancers
Charlene Jamilah Hunter
Nisa Ra
Thomas Beckett
Rashidah
Amina

Raymond Sawyer

Suzzette Celeste

dance

I swoon 

I am heaven dance

my poetry

arms sway

legs leap

torsos turn

heads twist

dance 
I am moved

in my stillness

moved.

you can't see me

cool cat by the wall

dancing in silent stillness.
--Marvin X
4/11/18