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Making jazz swing in seventeen syllables AINT No square poet's job. --Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight w/ the bluntness
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves Etheridge Knight (from "Haiku")
My favorite reads of 2017: Difficult Women, The Essential Etheridge Knight, Saga, The Hate You Give, and 1776.
Vigo County by Etheridge Knight Beyond the brown hill Above the silent cedars, Blackbirds flee the April rains.