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A Poem for Speculative Hipsters

by Amiri Baraka

He had got, finally,
to the forest
of motives. There were no
owls, or hunters. No Connie Chatterleys   
resting beautifully
on their backs, having casually
brought socialism
to England.   
                  Only ideas,
and their opposites.
                              Like,
                he was really
                nowhere.

 Amiri  Baraka

Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and . . . MORE »

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