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Callaloo 25.1 (2002) 97



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Tracie Morris


What the sister brother mother making in the oven? Subtle shoulder
bounce comeuppance? Breakdance from Angolans going, us up under
ships rowing? Flowing over undertow, Sammy's taps. Hand jive
happenstance to techno trance, folks coveting colored. True black being an
encompassing hue, placentas siphoned off magenta, violence, indigo blues
with cane cotton tobacco rows to hoe.

So what you sayin'? Sosa's John Henry with a Creatine steam engine?
Recidivism's net effect is akin to an Amadou Louima ass kickin'?

Hit it, Reconnoitering Negroes AWOL versus Dominating Nazi Aryans.
RNA vs. DNA in the body politic, difference being the leftovers, sugar.
What flies is attracted to besides shit. We got some. Circulocutious Infidels
affirming the Ferral Biologic importing it

Each territory a precious piece. Kill 'em with kindness. Sweet like a Lauryn
declaration of love overlapping the looped Bata backbeat. Like a 12 year
old's pressed curls greased with Dax. Like somebody fifty-seven polishing
his T-bird with Turtlewax.

Old romance. Akara to chitlins to chicken wings. Shekere to hambone to
two Technics. Field holler Doo Wops make microphone fiends



 

Tracie Morris is a multidisciplinary performance poet who has worked in theater, dance, music and film. She has toured extensively both nationally and internationally, and her poetry has been anthologized widely, including commissioned pieces for several national and international organizations; her sound-based poems are being featured in the Whitney Museum's 2002 Biennial. A graduate of Hunter College, CUNY (BA/MFA) and an alumna of the Cave Canem Summer Institute, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College in addition to being a working artist.

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