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Make Believe
Bill Quigley
01 Mar 2009
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By Kemet Mawakana

The Seven Foot Poet reflects on what we think of as manhood, how "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" and what we imagine it means to "man up."

Do click the link below to hear this original work performed by the Seven Foot Poet.

 

 Make Believe

Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary.

No Market

African Manhood

Reduced Restricted Repressed Oppressed

Put On Shiny European Styled Suits

Resume Requests

Auction Blocks

Pick Thee

Please

To Eat Today

Costs

Stomping Own Seeds

No Way Not Never

Manhood Fatherhood Tragic

Cry

Tears Justified

Necessary

Until Act Action And Ax

Swing Swing Swing

So Giant Falls


And Everyone Lived Happily African Ever After.


By Kemet Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)

Peace (when appropriate) War (when necessary)

Copyright 2009.


Kemet Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented in www.blackagendareport.com are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational Institute (www.ayaed.com) in Atlanta, Georgia and can be reached at sevenfootpoet@gmail.com

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