The Main Event, by stacy-marie ishmael
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I need to learn
now how to speak, but from where.
stacy-marie ishmael
Jan 25
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There’s more to MLK than “I Have a Dream”
And arcs of justice.
stacy-marie ishmael
Jan 18
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I always thought language was / Akin to the body
Padlocked oh so delicately to a pulse. / It tells you in the beginning was the word.
stacy-marie ishmael
Jan 18
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Everyone is crying out for peace
None is crying out for justice
stacy-marie ishmael
Jan 11
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i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back / like a wind
stacy-marie ishmael
Jan 4
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The perfect moment is now.
Be glad of it.
stacy-marie ishmael
Dec 28, 2020
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you cannot catch / my rhythm
(for you have to be born / with that)
stacy-marie ishmael
Dec 21, 2020
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what advice do the drowned have for the burned?
what gossip is there between the hanged & the buried?
stacy-marie ishmael
Dec 14, 2020
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And still a world begins its furious erasure—
Who do you think you are, saying I to me?
stacy-marie ishmael
Dec 7, 2020
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You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate the spirit of the music to sto…
—Or poetry, or art, or anything that is of value or matters in this world, and the next worlds.
stacy-marie ishmael
Nov 30, 2020
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After that came a sadness so big it made everyone
look the same
stacy-marie ishmael
Nov 23, 2020
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Inhale. So many of us are breathless,
you know, like me
stacy-marie ishmael
Nov 16, 2020
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