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of slavemasters sipping tea in the parlor
while we bleed to death in fields 
tradition of cc rider
see what you done done
dont tell me shit about the tradition of slavemasters
& henry james I know about it up to my asshole in it
dont tell me shit about bach mozart or even 1/2 nigger beethoven
get out of europe
come out of europe if you can
cancel on the english depts this is america
north, this is america
where's yr american music 
gwashington won the war
where's yr american culture southernagrarians
            academic aryans
            penwarrens & wilburs

         say something american if you dare
            if you
             can
                where's yr american 
                music
                    Nigger music?

(Like englishmen talking about great britain stop with tongues lapped on their cravats you put the irish on em. Say shit 
man, you mean irish irish Literature....when they say about they 
you say nay you mean irish irish literature you mean, for the last century you mean, when you scream say nay, you mean yeats, synge, shaw, wilde joyce, ocasey, beckett, them is, nay, them is irish, they's irish, irish as the ira

you mean nigger music? dont hide in europe- "oh thats classical!" 
come to this country
 nigger music?
     thats all you got
       mumble gershwin?
         mumble copeland?
           Even you got better taste than say Leonard 
             Bernstein
               you dont know
                 Ives
                   Nigger Music

you better go up in appalachia
and get some mountain some coal mining 
songs, you better go down south in our land
& talk to the angloamerican national minority 
they can fetch up a song or two, country & western
could save you from looking like saps before the world 
otherwise
    Palante!
    Latino, Native American
    Bomba, Plena, Salsa, Rain dance War dance
    Magical invective 
    The Latin Tinge
    Cherokee, Sonny Rollins w/ Clifford Brown
    Diz & Machito, or Mongo SantaMaria
    -
    Comin Comin World Saxophone Quartet you cannot stand up 
against, Hell No I Aint Goin To Afghanistan, Leon Thomas million year 
old pygmyies you cannot stand up against, nor Black Arthur tellin you 
like Blue Turhan Bey, Odessa, Romance can Bloom even here in White Racist 
Land It can Bloom as Beautiful, though flawed by our oppression it can 
bloom bloom, in the tradition 
          of revolution
          Renaissance
          Negritude
          Blackness
          Negrissmo
          Indigisme
       sounding niggers
      swahili speaking niggers nigger in turbans
  rna & app & aprp & cap black blacks
& assembly line, turpentine, mighty fine female
   blacks, and cooks, truck drivers, coal miners 
    small farmers, iron steel and hospital workers
    in the tradition of us
    the reality not us the narrow fantasy
in the tradition of africa american black people/america

nigger music's almost all
you got, and you find it
much too hot

     in the tradition thank you arthur for playing & saying 
     reminding us how deep how old how black how sweet how
we is and bees
when we rememberr
when we are our memory as the projection
of what it is evolving
in struggle
in passion and pain
we become our sweet black
selves

Transcription Notes:
I made sure all was typed in the configuration this is on the page since it seems integral to the work I know we aren't supposed to do 'enter' after each line but it seemed best for this