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if you take a step into the mind/ never know what sherlock’ll find/ clues they too sometimes combine/ but tend to grow like tomato vines/ so that’s why I sometimes cry/ and try to carwash both my eyes/ then open them up like a diner sign/ 24 hrs always fresh/ 7 days a week I deliver my best/ the ekg said my heart is stressed/ am I too young to have this in my chest?/ I don’t think so, but I’ll slow… down… my.. flow/ like black molasses goes//

what’s a song without a dream?/ hip hop without “p’s” on the scene is ‘hi-ho’/ wave bye yo—boy + rocket’s set to go/ got wings so strong and beats so true/ birds and squirrels they feel it too/ I put out my thumb and they picked me up/ now I got a space suit (&) it’s buttoned up/ tight up- to the neck/ but loose as a goose in winter wet/ we use these tunes as insulation/ and transform our situations/ over the rainbow might be gold/ but that’s not here so I do not know/ it might be silver, it might be bronze/ I hope it’s bullfrogs in a pond/ with big flys above and lily pads below/ and roots so deep you can feel them grow/ and every so often I hope they’ll be/ a lotus flower floatin’ there perfectly/

like an old man, like a baby, like a woman, like a new seed, like fall leaves, like a cool breeze, like summer, like ice cream, like winter when snow’s falling, like my love when she is calling/ calling/ calling to me/ to me/ like an old man, like a baby…//

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from The Summer Sessions, released August 1, 2006

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h.u.e (hope-uplifts-everything) Chicago, Illinois

Saleem Hue Penny (him/friend) is a Black, disabled poet expanding the pastoral tradition of the Southern Black Belt using a "rural hip-hop blues" aesthetic. He punctuates his hybrid/mixed media work with drum loops, gouache paint, Jim Crow artifacts, walnut ink, field sounds, & birch bark. He explores how young people of color traverse wild spaces and define freedom on their own terms. ... more

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