O Things

1. Things are not simply moved; they also move -- at different and often imperceptible paces.

2. Things are not so hard, if you just try. But setbacks are part of the terrain you must navigate.

3. Things are not all hard. You just have to find the way -- to their soft side. 

4. Time is the reason
We have all the things 
We have.

5. Things are the reason
We have the spaces
We have.

6. Time and Space are
The reason for all the paces 
Between things.

7. Spaces and paces between
Things are the reason we have
The Internet.

8. The #spaces inside the #Andromeda + the #MilkyWay are the reason there's not a thing there 2 harm the #earth when the 2 #galaxies do collide [A May 24, 2016 tweet]

MUSIC VIDEO: Olamide's Theatrical Performance in "Falila Ketan"

Super-artiste Olamide's Falila Ketan is as much a theatrical performance, of no mean order, as it is sung poetry. Sung poetry in an 'enterprising', rapid-fire kind of way. Rhymes and rhythm mix. Poetic reason reigns. Juxtaposed memes blend. Beats at treble the speed of the beating 'eart beat. A bunch of jazzed motifs all stringed together, are all the rage. In this raging music video.

There's thrill in that speed, in that cocophonic beat about a few sturdy minutes? Betcha. Everytin is, you know, hapa kwa hapa: Words, sounds, visual images, naughtiness. Chuckling. Gals who don care what u tink abt de twerking ('an den sum'). Nay, who axe u -- an who u tink u r. Who, even, dare say it's yo prooooblem, Mansa!

Guess dey dident 'ave dat kind of hot n hotter stuff or t'in or rump in de, dat sing-song Sung (Song?) Dynasty dey toke of.


Click here to watch the video clip

Everything We Were: Haiku

Love's the reason. We
Were where ever we found us.
No end to things there.

Fear & Courage

Be. Be not among the fearful.
Fear not anyone,
And not anything.
Be not the one always in retreat.

Think as you will many wild thoughts.

Query, all the intentions.
Arm yourself with Reason.
Do, then, what you must.
Be among the courageous.

And never, ever, be afraid. 

Birth of Totality: Haiku

All the dead matter!
Reason we count as we do!
Shadows at noon tide!