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Art Reaction: Leroi Jones and His Family, Bob Thompson, 1964
Babylon Revisited was the first poem I ever memorized, and loved, and could recite at will. It was horrible /bile- full but the words were beautiful. They flowed from a mouth. Impossible to speak them gentle or slow, so many near-rhymes and walls and spits.
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On Jesus, ISIL, and Brokenness
Art and destruction are inescapable on a planet that includes humans.