& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
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Amiri Baraka
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.
Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.