One Way

from Thomas Kneeland's We Be Walkin' Blackly in the Deep

Jun 26, 2023

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Celebrate this history     this Black joy—
let it drip from your tongues
like honey & milk from the promised land
& say we be rhyme & rhythm
& arrhythmia for off beats
we beat into school desks
when beat cops finally see

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