A makeshift guide to recognizing poetry outside of paradise.
Monday, July 6, 2009
We are alive in marvelous times
First single off Mos Def's new album, The Ecstatic (which he'll start selling this month by t-shirts with a code on the tag which can be used to download the tracks for free) ... can always count on him for poetry and properly-placed emotion:
And we are alive in amazing times delicate hearts, diabolical minds revelations, hatred, love and war. and more and more and more and more and more of less than ever before
"Life's dirty. Life's unclean. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey pies. That's us. We're fabulous."
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