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Black Star (Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey [formerly known as Mos Def])
TV broadcast (The Colbert Report), 2011

“Fix Up”

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“Astronomy (8th Light)”

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lagniappe

reading table

I’m on a crowded ship
and I’ve been served the wrong breakfast.

This small mound
of soggy dough
is not what I ordered.

“Why don’t you just say
what you mean?”

Why don’t I?

*****

To be awake
is to discriminate

among birdcalls,
fruits, seeds,
“to work one’s way,”
as they say,

“through.”

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Apes can mind-read.
Studies show

what makes us human
is our tendency to point.

*****

I am not alone in this
sentence.

—Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (2011), misc. fragments