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POEM: HAIKU #76

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haiku #76

we are talented

people, we love life, why won't

the blues leave us 'lone

—kalamu ya salaam

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We as Frantz Fanon said are " The Wretched of the earth" , also the Art Ensemble of Chicago called us " A people of sorrow", as Lightning Hopkins said " Ah baby scratch my back" As America said " Who gives a shit"...

— ayeawiekabea

Kalamu ya Salaam

New Orleans writer, filmmaker and educator, Kalamu ya Salaam is the moderator of neo•griot, an information blog for black writers and supporters of our literature worldwide

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