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UntitledAuthor(s): Tracie MorrisSource: Callaloo, Vol. 25, No. 1, Jazz Poetics: A Special Issue (Winter, 2002), p. 97Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3300390 .
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by Tracie Morris
What the sister brother mother making in the oven? Subtle shoulder bounce comeuppance? Breakdance from Angolans going, us up under ships rowing? Flowing over undertow, Sammy's taps. Hand jive happenstance to techno trance, folks coveting colored. True black being an encompassing hue, placentas siphoned off magenta, violence, indigo blues with cane cotton tobacco rows to hoe.
So what you sayin'? Sosa's John Henry with a Creatine steam engine? Recidivism's net effect is akin to an Amadou Louima ass kickin'?
Hit it, Reconnoitering Negroes AWOL versus Dominating Nazi Aryans. RNA vs. DNA in the body politic, difference being the leftovers, sugar. What flies is attracted to besides shit. We got some. Circulocutious Infidels affirming the Ferral Biologic importing it
Each territory a precious piece. Kill 'em with kindness. Sweet like a Lauryn declaration of love overlapping the looped Bata backbeat. Like a 12 year old's pressed curls greased with Dax. Like somebody fifty-seven polishing his T-bird with Turtlewax.
Old romance. Akara to chitlins to chicken wings. Shekere to hambone to two Technics. Field holler Doo Wops make microphone fiends
Callaloo 25.1 (2002) 97
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