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Re: "There is a cure for the Blues..."

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by: General-Zod - Tue, 9 Apr 2024 20:11 UTC

Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> > "There is a cure for the Blues
>> > [...]
>> > A white cabbie says there ain't never
>> > been no/great colored poets
>> > [...]
>> > and I think to myself man
>> > this cat is hip/ smooth,
>> > there's truth in his meter,
>> > so I sez to him I say, hey man,
>> > how come a professor like you
>> > is driving a cab?"
>> > -Ahmos Zu-Bolton, fair use excerpt from "Taxicab Blues".
>> >
>> > Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948,[1] Poplarville, Mississippi - March 8,
>> > 2005[2]) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and
>> > publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
>> >
>> > Read more at:
>> > http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton

Brilliant worker of words....

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