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Duke Ellington. Amiri Baraka (Remove filter)

Tongue Swallow

Tongue Swallow

This thang do me like

I don’t belong

This thang hang around

Like weather fronts and stall

Above me making it snow

Rain and storm

Making rivers

Lakes and seas rise up and rebel

Against land and everything

And everybody on it

This thang like climate change

Got so many names

We can’t point a finger at it

And identify it well enough

To get he...

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Duke Ellington. Amiri Baraka   Fred Moten   J. Otis Powell‽   This thang   Tongue Swallow   Transbluesency

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