A Baraka Seminar

 

Pandemic Truth-Telling Seminar (Prelude for April 2021)

 

It is foolish to chase after cause & effect, because the effect is itself a lost cause.

 

We (Eye and I) pardon your nicked name but not the radical hope you claim.  We are defensive/offensive weapons, stopping enemies where they stand.  We teach an accidental genius once

named K. Marx the plain art of thinking. The report cards suggest he is making good progress.

Eye and I do not disown the virtue of a sinner in order to laminate a saint.  I/ beautiful in battle/dies.

Eye dies?  A shame/ ashamed to question grammar.  Actuality reads  reality's poker face.  Correctness is a homeless entity.  In a ordinary moment of sexism, we say "Mama, your thing is up tight and too tight. Why do you consent to attempt to do the jobs assigned to Horus and myth in a dead book?"  Shame, shame, shame as you navigate the coffle- chain of fools.  Conversations cancel conversations.  We (Eye and I) know how absolutely on point David's bible songs and another David's citizen appeals continue to be.  The freak is the funk.

All that tired mock epic of no-color mocks and destroys the epic of no-integrity, broadcasting false narratives of how music intends to mean.  Us knows dat. I/beautiful in a bottle/ refuse to die.

 

Jerry W. Ward, Jr.                            3/31/2021 5:25:41 PM

 

 

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