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Re: "There is a cure for the Blues..."

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by: Will-Dockery - Sat, 16 Mar 2024 17:16 UTC

> Heathcliff wrote:
> "There is a cure for the Blues
> [...]
> A white cabbie says there ain't never
> been no/great colored poets
> [...]
> and I think to myself man
> this cat is hip/ smooth,
> there's truth in his meter,
> so I sez to him I say, hey man,
> how come a professor like you
> is driving a cab?"
> -Ahmos Zu-Bolton, fair use excerpt from "Taxicab Blues".

>
> Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948,[1] Poplarville, Mississippi -
March 8,
> 2005[2]) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his
editing and
> publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
>
> Read more at:
> http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton

Again, good find.

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Re: "There is a cure for the Blues..."	Will-Dockery