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Listening Again to Shani Laughing.
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| Article Type: | Poem |
| Author: | Simanga, Michael |
| Pub Date: | 12/01/2010 |
| Publication: | Name: Journal of Pan African Studies Publisher: Journal of Pan African Studies Audience: Academic Format: Magazine/Journal Subject: Social sciences Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2010 Journal of Pan African Studies ISSN: 0888-6601 |
| Issue: | Date: Dec, 2010 Source Volume: 4 Source Issue: 2 |
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| Accession Number: | 306754436 |
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Amiri Baraka 3/24/07 Amiri Baraka is Godfather of the Black Arts Movement, and our greatest living writer/activist. Listening Again to Shani Laughing What loss In yr life, like losing life For yr life is touched with all lives What is closer than the life You give, what loss greater Than the life you gave, the life Inside What loss is deeper, what pain more horrible None, none, there is None... 2 Shani had a perfect idea Of her self She knew exactly what her self Her perfect little self Shd be And she beed it 3 I tell you Evil Is the reverse Of what is live Not just death, but Something that can never Live. 4 Not the thought Of dying But of never having Been alive That is the craziness That haunts Things that want Yr life |
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