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Callaloo 27.4 (2004) 969-970


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offtime + qualify

Fred Moten

            casa de las americas

tired grotesque daisy, what's tired

up there is dead down here

and salted and dried

running names like dry changes all the same

drain all the marx off the page.
blue fade, insignificant voter,
show out fresh for the po' folk

with that mute mutant green shirt on.
all the acid washed doofi get down

            it's the joint. at the faculty retreat

orion, stultify
      delicious

illuviate
paleofunky

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            sandals in new york

but you don't see 'em autumn

in new york but I saw three
flip-flops unpainted toes
by the shock of november
sun (but tomorrow red or blue

with stars) my heart was

all gibley gibley on the way

to work. laura, when I go

play the sound of that clicked

heel and street oooh make me
fingertips electric I'll smile
Fred Moten teaches at the University of Southern California. He has published a number of poems and interviews in such periodicals as nocturnes, Grand Street, The World, boundary 2, Five Fingers Review, Poetry Project Newsletter, and Callaloo. His scholarly articles have appeared in many journals and collections, including Cambridge Opera Journal, Hambone, Performing Hybridity, and Women and Performance. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and of Stolen Life, which is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.


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