Patti Smith

I will blaspheme to instruct if those still listening can hear: the pretense of this world is fucked beyond repair; that much is clear. I will replay classic moments in a whirl of light and sound; relive near death’s self-wrought torment in my history’s chains, bound. I will speak in words, in whispers of potential […]

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Ray Charles: Eyesight From the Blind

In one of his early 70s comedy routines, Flip Wilson imagined a conversation between Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain (and I paraphrase, as the album Cowboys and Colored People is long out of print and my vinyl is lost to the ravages of time): Queen: Well, what’s in America, Chris? What are you […]

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