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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Somebody Blew up America--Amiri Baraka



I read where a Kentucky poet thought that Amiri Baraka had turned himself into a laughing stock. She was bemoaning our lack of radical poets with respect to the Iraq Occupation. Where is that pedophile Ginsberg when we need him to write war protest poems?

We have who we have and I've had all the same thoughts Baraka has been able to express.

I've decided to highlight Baraka in this blog for a few days and look for the laughs. I assume this is the poem she's referring to. I've found several versions of this poem at YouTube. Some I like better than others. So far I'm not laughing.

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