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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
And loving the music to suffering beats and lashes from men's eyes of the capital's streets.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
Southeast D.C. with its sleepy crime.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
My mother nursed patients from seven to nine.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
Patients gray from the railroad riding past civil rights.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
I walked their tracks when I entertained them at the chapel and made their canes pillars of percussion to my heavy gospel.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
My comedy out loud laughing about

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
Our shared stolen experiences of the South.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
Would it surprise you if I told you my blood was delivered from north?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
Of Portuguese vessels who gave me spiritual stones and the turn in my eyes?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
My father's name where they conquered the Pacific isles?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
My hair is black and thick as nagrito, growing abundant as sampaguita

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
Flowers defying civilization like Pilipino pygmies that dance on the mountain.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
I could give you an epic about my ways of life or my look, and you want me to fill it in one square box?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
How could you tell me to fill Gilgamesh with all of its waters in one square box?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
From what shape or integer do you count existing identities? Grant loans for the mind or Crayola white censor sheets?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
There's no One Kind to fill for anyone.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
You: tell me who I am, what gets the most money, and I'll sing that song like a one-man caravan.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
I know arias from Naples, Tunis and Accra, lullabies from welfare, food stamps and nature.

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
And you want me to sing one song?

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
I have danced jigs with Jim Crow and shuffled my hips to the sound of guitar of Clapton and Hendrix;

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{SPEAKER name="Regie Cabico"}
waltzed with dead lovers, skipped to bamboo sticks, balleted Kabuki and mimed Kathakali, Arrivederci the rhumba and tapped Tin Pan Alley, and you want me to dance the Bhagavad Gita on a box too small for a Thumbelina thin diva? I'll