February 2014

My mother was my first visual

audio

rebellion

She taught me to avoid being surprised

She brought rebel stories

And not only hers

survivor story

think before you do story

married white man story

a violence she was not accustomed to

“I wasn`t raised like that”

Sticky story

Get your lashes on story

Don’t leave your drink story

and

Wigs

My beyond Islam red

with fist raised Malcolm story

Squeeze my LP

me next to Bobby Blue Bland 

with

cousin skinny legs on stage

Musicians living dangerously

elegant hit the floor jazz club story

It is not possible to forget

Cuz you supposed to study

Grandfather story

Studying all the time

Poet all the time

Choose a good script

Why don`t the children say hello in sweet face 

Why do unchained people think they free 

Why does popular music function as a weapon - distraction you against you 

this non free space  -  where

excellence will  - story

where story where story where story – functioning

include music history  as absolute protection –where a song still sings sang

When did story stop needing a underground railroad  

Checkist ---------------by Robert Wallace

Checklist

1.    A different cadence
2.    ukiyo-e
3.    Finding alone
4.    Must keep trying
5.    I don’t trust happiness
6.    Well, yeah, of course
7.    After a while the sun will shine
8.    So much to do
9.    Redoubled his efforts
10.    Where are you going?
11.    Le Peintre
12.    Her walk, the way her hips swayed
13.    Devising methods and routines
14.    Bone-rattling cold
15.    regelmäβig
16.    A portal for ghosts
17.    Simmer down
18.    He always liked her better from a distance
19.    Tree trunk graffiti
20.    Oh man, Nat King Cole
21.    With art as their currency
22.    Transcendence
23.    “Waiting for the Moon”
24.    Past tense
25.    It smells old
26.    I am unreasonably confident
27.    Tulse Luper
28.    Too fast for his old ears
29.    Irons in the fire
30.    Pull
31.    Learning to count
32.    “reduced to an artist”
33.    Degrees

By Jamika Ajalon (in response to revolution up up )

Revolution at part III

(in response to revolution up up )

Was b4 asking

were th revolution at at

now pondering the up up

on the scat scat

plug in tune in or out 

where the revolution at III

somewhere out back

scratched memory tracks

with all those forgot got

bones water hosed

necks broken brought

strange fruit 

and billie she scat scat

now theres digital coups 

armchair bruises 

too much chat chat

gotta tune in plug out out

out back remember that cat 

in the black beret hat

that sister who sat before rosa sat

still serving  4 score more

still wondering

where the revolution at at