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Wordsongs For Grandmas, is here! Click the cover to order your copy. Thank you!
Life in Print
The poetry of Asani Charles
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I’m quite tired of cancer.
It should wither away into dust like rotary phones,
manual car windows and other passé, née primitive things.
I have no idea why cancer likes poets so much either.
Is it because we carry truth in our mouths
like water gourds in the desert?
Is it because we see humanity in small, discarded places?
I’ve decided that cancer not only sucks, but
should surely attack itself until it has eaten
all the evil it can bear and then die
in a lonely dank corner with no one
to surround it with love or care.
We will not be moved, but will march on
with swords in our pockets and drones in our keypads.
Truth is eternal and so are the poets who bear its testimony.
For Giselle Robinson, Lucille Clifton, Ai, and the human called
John TRUdell
© Asani Charles
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#RememberingKatrina because ten years ago the waters came bringing salt and tears. #LluviaAndLamentation #Katrina10
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Lululululu for him, for all of us!
Christian Titman walks into Lamonica Stadium for Clovis High’s graduation ceremony Thursday, June 4, 2015, in Clovis, Calif. The Native American student is wearing an eagle feather to his high school graduation after resolving a court fight with a California school district over the sacred object. (Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee via AP) Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO – A Native American student wore an eagle feather that he considers sacred to his high school graduation ceremony after resolving a court fight with a California school district.
Christian Titman, clad in blue with his fellow graduates of Clovis High School, marched into the stadium at sunset Thursday, his long braid with the eagle feather attached came out one side of his cap while the traditional graduate’s tassel hung over the other side.
His presence – and the feather’s – at the ceremony came after a last-minute deal with the Clovis Unified…
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