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Indigo Blues
Kemet Mawakana
04 Jun 2008
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by Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”)
 

Is it science fiction?

Is it past prediction?

He never confuses, our poet, he muses.


 

Indigo Blues

(Dedicated to ancestor Dr. Amos Wilson)

(the audio of this poem is temporarily unavailable)

It started benign enough with a financial gift

to help establish

a research facility

then the

announcement of the cloning of Dolly the sheep

then the

cloning of animal meat for human consumption

as time passed or as economic political strife grew

some institute

think tank

academic

bureaucrat

strategist

came up with the “brilliant”

idea

let’s clone a labor force

for our national betterment

to make the clones readily identifiable

they decided to make the clones’ skin tone blue

however after objective analysis and rational thought

the cost of indigo was cost prohibitive

so they scrapped the plan and settled on using you.

 

By Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)

Peace (when appropriate) War (when necessary)

Copyright 2004.

Kemit Mawakana (aka “The Seven-Foot Poet”) is a highly acclaimed spoken-word artist, and has published two books A . . . Z . . . Infinity and Crucifixion of My Soul. The collective body of his works presented weekly in BAR are in tribute to Listervelt Middleton, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, and “For The People”. Currently, he is a facilitator at AYA Educational Institute (www.ayaed.com) and can be reached at sevenfootpoet@gmail.com.

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