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Hearing lots of post-Nov 5th blued projections. Folks disheartened, confused, angry, depressed. Seriously considering leaving the empire. The empire hasn’t changed simply woke up with a new head figuring how to squeeze out the best for him, his family & billionaire cohorts. America — same today as the days before. Now that’s reason to look for the Poetz! Seek us out, hear what we’ve got to say!!! Call on us & be present with us next two Saturdays running: 16th Poetz Portal Poetz @ TekVenture; & the 23rd the OctoGenarian Tour @ PawPaw House. Come gift us your presence, & allow us to uplift your spirit with RealTalk, not the garden-variety canned corporate media blather that passes as news or information you need.

yuull never walk alone

nina,[1] yu will never walk alone

hi/priestess yu were yu be

priestess indeed        for

thesanktifyd among us

thesinner among us

thelost among us

thekost for us

yu hi/priestess

kastingout demonz

kallingforth the/to be

yung gifted & blakk uv us

yu firstmost severely sakrifycd

the/emoshunal weight yu karryd

that punishment gonemissing

frum your smyl

frum theall yu gave us

far surpassing all attemptz

to krush your/our spirit

to despirit oursoulz

yu hi/priestess

giving & giving & giving

taking blowz to

protekt us

nina, nina, nina

simone

[1] Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon on February 21, 1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her mother, Mary Kate Irvin, was a Methodist preacher and housekeeper, and her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as an entertainer, barber, and dry-cleaner. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/nina-simone

New York native Kétu Oladuwa is the son of Carrie and John Taylor, Margaret Fisher and Tyrone Foster, and the student of Chief James Hawthorne Béy. Poetry discovered Kétu while on death row for a murder he did not commit. There he calibrated his Afrikan identity & wrote himself anew. With his Life Partner 36 years, he is the father of five. A BS in professional theatre grad of Fordham U, with an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism, at Northwestern, Kétu blogs at https://rootfolks.com. With 8 self-published books since 2017, he founded Identity Counts Cultural Collective, RootFolks Poets Press, cofounded & produced A Big Apple Jazz Club Series, & Poetikz @ the Krossroads. For 382 days, during 2015-2016, at 70 years, Kétu traveled alone on a motorcycle to the US lower 48 states. Now 80, Kétu's developing a multicity poetry tour.

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