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Unanimous Goldmine - All Coltrane solos at once.
Read An Essay And Hear A New Song From Saul Williams In Honor Of MLK DayBy SAUL WILLIAMS
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To the powers that be, we say "fuck u" and to those who, like police, follow orders, fight or work to maintain a system that does not keep their best interest, nor the overwhelming majority's at heart we say "understand me."
Understand, what made Egyptian soldiers lay down their arms and join protestors during the Arab Spring. Understand what made communities across America take to the streets, storm highways & shopping centers, peacefully. Understand that although the divide and conquer tactics of pitting black against white, christian against muslim against jew, can bring worthwhile debate and heightened understanding, it doesn't take much to realize that the true and only fight is against that which has kept women subjugated to men, and poor subjugated to rich. The sooner we understand this without brandishing overtly blind-siding terms like "terrorist" "lazy" the sooner we realize that we are all, in fact, on the same team and that the movement towards a more educated, better fed society should not be side-lined by such petty constructs as race, identity, and that which has kept many groups disenfranchised, silenced, and in debt.
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Unanimous Goldmine
All Coltrane solos at once.
Twist them horns
'round the necks
of each equation
& expand
upon multiples
of death.
We were crowded
into the shitbins
of a floating toilet
dreaming of an Afterlife.
Memory stored in a cloud.
Terra-bytes
in sea-major.
The winners
of religious thinking
praise books
for bookends.
Here, is the invention
of the astronaut.
First Nation
Sweat ceremony
in a spaceship.
To imagine hell
is privilege.
Paint a dreamworld
solid enough
to hold us.
Held by
blocks of time,
margins & calendars,
divisions of labor
contracts: social & otherwise.
With each kiss
bio-dynamic
in direct co-relation
to stars & seasons,
the ability to
calculate distance,
harness power,
stem cells,
erect mobile mansions
capable of projecting destruction
at greater & greater will,
what could be keeping us here?
Here is what death is like:
Life without fear.
All Coltrane solos at once.
Twist them horns
'round the necks
of each equation
& expand
upon multiples
of death.
We were crowded
into the shitbins
of a floating toilet
dreaming of an Afterlife.
Memory stored in a cloud.
Terra-bytes
in sea-major.
The winners
of religious thinking
praise books
for bookends.
Here, is the invention
of the astronaut.
First Nation
Sweat ceremony
in a spaceship.
To imagine hell
is privilege.
Paint a dreamworld
solid enough
to hold us.
Held by
blocks of time,
margins & calendars,
divisions of labor
contracts: social & otherwise.
With each kiss
bio-dynamic
in direct co-relation
to stars & seasons,
the ability to
calculate distance,
harness power,
stem cells,
erect mobile mansions
capable of projecting destruction
at greater & greater will,
what could be keeping us here?
Here is what death is like:
Life without fear.
MORE understanding:
http://www.thefader.com/2015/01/19/read-saul-williams-mlk-day-essay-and-hear-his-new-haleek-maul-collaboration
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