Faraway Star wrote:
Will Dockery wrote:
Zod 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
Topic of the day, Ahmos Zu-Bolton
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