Oba Maja is a street poet here in Chicago. He stands at the corner of North, Milwaukee and Damen & hawks his wares– photocopies of handwritten poems. One day he told me that someone had done a mural of him at Lake & Damen. Lo and behold, here it is.
Here’s another one of my brother Kevin with Oba on Kevin’s birthday. I commisioned him to write a poem to for Kevin’s 50th birthday.
Good poem, good poet. Buy some.