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BALLGAME!
Bill Quigley
17 Sep 2008
🖨️ Print Article

BALLGAME!

By
Kemet Mawakana, a.k.a. The Seven Foot Poet


click
the flash player below to hear this original work performed by its
author

{mp3}poetry/1017ft_ballgame{/mp3}


“Excuse
me! Excuse me!

Mr.
Mandigo . . . Mr. Mandigo!

Can I have your
autograph?

I
think you’re the greatest

And my Dad does
too!

We
bought front row tickets

To
watch you run around in the zoo.”


By
Kemit Mawakana (aka The Seven-Foot Poet)

Peace
(when appropriate) War (when necessary)

Copyright
1996.


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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