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Dynasty Of Time 6 flows
New Poetry:
"Dynasty Of Time in 6 flows"
Nanjing International Writers' Residency 2022
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Notes from the Nanjing International Writers’ Residency, 2022
For 2023 I'll be working some fresh words. Long-form literature is still a thing. Get your language kicks here, with me.
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In the 4th quarter of 2022 I applied for and was accepted into the Nanjing International Writers’ Residency. 6 writers from around the world were selected to participate in a month-long online immersion into Chinese literary culture, led by the Nanjing Literature Centre. Over the course of November, I was able to explore Nanjing from a virtual vantage…
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Paid in Poverty
As I’m taking out the rubbish bags for collection early on a Thursday morning I notice two men walking up the street. They’re easily distinguishable from the other occupants of the road that are picking through the refuse before the rubbish truck arrives in order to salvage anything of value, usually for recycling but also, I suspect, for eating. These two stand out from the rest because they are…
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'White Privilege' is a good idea
‘White Privilege’ is a good idea
I too want to live in a world where my race and gender are irrelevant enough as to render them insignificant in the way I pursue my life. But I believe that the only reason that I can conceive of such a reality is because I have been allowed to live in closest proximity to its potential.
I read a recent article by South African writer and teacher Chris Waldburger that he titled “‘White…
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Scoring Walls #1: the album
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SCORING WALLS is an album type collection of new Hip Hop. It’s my freshest work.
I’ve been making this kind of noise professionally for fifteen or so years and this year marks 10 since I released my first full length album: Higher Flyer For Hire. The fabric of that project has so many threads it’s difficult to unravel it all now. Some of them are tangled, some of them…
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I've had enough
I’ve had enough
I am struck by how I live in a world where those with the least do the most with what little they have and yet somehow they still seem to have very little. Those with the most seem to do the least and still they have the most. Those with the least inevitably end up doing the most for those that do the least, so that those that do the least can have the most by doing very little.
In this world…
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Le Pont (The Bridge)
Le Pont (The Bridge)
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Outpourings of all sorts of emotions y’know? Till you catch yourself feeling too much and scold yourself silently, softly, and proceed to “get real”. Whatever. That’s why I listen to bagpipes a lot, coz I like my sentimentality and I like it with some steel in it y’know? That’s twice I’ve asked if “y’know”. It’s cool. You don’t have to know, just trust me: bagpipes, every time.
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Fresh Rap Lyrics: Hused Whut (Who said what?)
Fresh Rap Lyrics: Hused Whut (Who said what?)
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Be the strange man maintain a main plan / to put the can in the hands of the kids and / let them loose on Babylon’s buildings / I fill them with fire / Learn to burn up the Evil Empire / from the spire to the steeple / Conspire with common people / how the leaders and the people are no longer equal / From Osama to Obama / same dirt different hands / The CIA playing the same…
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I to I: no pats on the back from blacks.
I to I: no pats on the back from blacks.
I shouldn’t expect any kind of thanks (props) for rationalizing the obvious: I am a white-skinned man that is part of a global society that privileges me. I am a product of a history. I cannot escape my skin. Any discomfort I feel with any of this cannot be blamed on anyone else.
I cannot be blamed for being privileged, only for acting privileged, in a manner that: dehumanizes others;…
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I to I: how the hell to tackle yourself.
I to I: how the hell to tackle yourself.
In October of last year I asked Kat Francois if she would be keen to come out to Durban (South Africa), to create a theatre piece with me, to “butt poetic-heads together” live on stage.
Our topic would be race-relations between a Black European African Woman and a White African European Man. Neither of us knew what we were in for. Props (respect) must go to Kat and her fella Rob (photographer…
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The YOBO report: White back at you It’s 5am and I’ve been up since 3 because I can’t stop thinking about being white.
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