A Poem Called Here.... (feat. Low Leaf & Qur'an Shaheed) - Def Sound/Low Leaf.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Emmanuel Ricketts
[00:19.397] The name of this poem is “Here”
[00:23.297] The name of this poem is Haiti
[00:26.099] The name of this poem is “Here”
[00:28.880] The name of this poem is Palestine
[00:31.486] The name of this poem is America
[00:33.083] The name is Flint, Michigan
[00:34.917] The name is China
[00:36.065] The name is South Central
[00:37.150] The name is Minnesotta
[00:38.201] The name is Johannesburg
[00:39.356] The name is Panama
[00:40.387] The name is Belize
[00:41.385] The name is Here
[00:43.180] Here is a strategy
[00:45.575] Here we can’t run away from we
[00:48.199] Here needs new imagination
[00:50.766] There’s nothing performative about Here
[00:53.248] Here has no guestlist or RSVP
[00:55.867] We are here whether we want to be or not
[00:59.738] Since I been here I’ve been reminded that freedom is health now
[01:03.484] Freedom is breathing now
[01:05.585] Freedom is not hating your roommate
[01:08.653] You know the simple shit
[01:11.457] Like a good meal
[01:14.086] Here is the re-examination
[01:17.218] The doing of the deep work of the unavoidable
[01:20.184] An inventory of the soul
[01:21.869] Here is an everyday choreography of the possible
[01:25.092] Dwelling in the wounds
[01:26.803] Really dwelling in these wounds
[01:29.075] The deconstruction of fiction of the stable
[01:32.419] Here in messy entanglements of empathy and apathy
[01:36.134] An assemblage of a fragmented people
[01:38.571] Here
[01:39.325] We water dancer of the mundane
[01:41.939] We wake up
[01:43.667] Scribble scripture
[01:45.156] Scroll a lil bit
[01:46.102] And we like a picture
[01:47.470] Sip a tincture
[01:48.604] Made a smoothie
[01:50.119] Watched a movie
[01:51.402] And then I let the stillness really move me
[01:55.206] We living life
[01:57.105] Through cell phone
[01:58.492] Accepting cookies
[01:59.703] Before ourselves though
[02:01.190] We laugh at memes but fear stuck to us like velcro
[02:05.656] The world is so different
[02:07.011] The veil has been lifted
[02:08.259] This show is unscripted
[02:09.640] But the cameras are still rolling now
[02:12.705] So whose hand are you holding now
[02:17.288] Restless in the wreckage
[02:19.526] We
[02:19.935] Unravel
[02:21.004] Undoing
[02:21.818] Entangled
[02:22.618] Unfolding
[02:24.578] All in the open now
[02:25.305] Here
[02:26.489] We can see what your hairline really look like
[02:29.338] What your mouth really do
[02:32.949] Unlearning silence
[02:34.616] Using survival tactic
[02:36.541] Here is a current event
[02:38.380] This is what we are at play
[02:40.314] Re-imagining new playgrounds
[02:42.045] Here we must move the people while staying put
[02:46.409] We must move the people while staying put
[02:49.793] The revolution will be collaborative
[02:52.662] Here the urgency in which one must express oneself,
[02:56.229] This urge that one must remain artist even without an audience
[02:59.649] The threat we face is invisible
[03:01.268] A virus can’t vote
[03:02.658] Can’t enslave
[03:03.515] The virus has no age
[03:05.301] The virus has no borders
[03:07.079] The virus is here
[03:08.234] The virus is a mirror
[03:09.422] The virus is racism
[03:11.009] The virus is more like vibration
[03:13.209] Although you can’t hold it you know it’s real
[03:15.991] You know it’s here
[03:17.315] When yourself threatens to smother you,
[03:19.462] You will open your mouth
[03:21.008] Not to yell or to scream, but to find your way to song
[03:25.832] Some way of breaking
[03:28.413] Some way to upheaval
[03:30.291] Some form of magic
[03:31.816] Some form of music
[03:33.274] Melanin filled resilience
[03:35.727] Here We have to imagine what we are if we are not producing products
[03:40.377] We are given a break
[03:44.234] Here we break
[03:45.515] Here we sanctuary new forms of family kinships used as resistance
[03:51.163] Here is a form of improvised connectedness
[03:55.196] Solidarity is a weapon
[03:57.140] A support immune system if you will
[03:59.160] If you won’t that’s fine this work here is as necessary as much as it is invisible
[04:03.550] Here we chorus,
[04:04.802] We swarm
[04:05.833] Ensemble,
[04:06.662] Mutual aid society
[04:08.031] Louder than the endless record of struggle on repeat ready to be sampled, and resampled and resampled over and over
[04:16.811] Meant to be passed on like generational mixtape
[04:18.840] Here is soundtrack to a history that hurts
[04:21.904] Here
[04:22.846] We chorus
[04:23.522] We concert
[04:24.478] We blueprint
[04:25.413] We work song
[04:26.080] Collectively Calypso
[04:26.905] Organized Orchestra
[04:28.589] Techno spiritual
[04:29.544] JuJu spiritual
[04:30.501] JuJu apparatus
[04:32.436] We move here in stillness
[04:34.969] Because the best musicians listen more than they play
[04:40.131] Here we Black noise finding a listening in one another
[04:45.200] Today is what I have
[04:47.396] Here is where I am
[04:49.561] Today is where I am
[04:51.822] Here is what I have
[04:53.632] From Here
[04:54.392] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away
[04:57.792] Sighs filled with working from home
[05:00.740] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away
[05:02.941] Eyes look like levy’s
[05:04.329] Hearts weigh glaciers
[05:06.695] Hunger for touch
[05:07.527] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away
[05:09.648] Cerfuwed into confusion
[05:11.455] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away
[05:14.496] Letting a smile peek through the uncertainty
[05:18.759] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away
[05:21.313] Mouths miming I miss you’s through facemasks
[05:24.343] Longing for a time not so long ago
[05:26.933] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away
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