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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
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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