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Birthplace - by Michael Cirelli
Deep in the Boogie Down—
the bassinet of the boom bap
where the trinity is The Treacherous Three,
English is the third language
behind Bronx and Puerto Rican,
and I was nervous
because I only speak Catholic school
and I'm a Red Sox fan.
I'm just a student of KRS-1, not a son,
on a train fourteen stops beyond my comfort
zone hiding behind headphones coughing
bass, and a backpack full of lyrics:
Notorious B.I.G., Rakim, Perdomo,
Run DMC, Brooks, wanting to be real cool,
wanting to be their "dawg"—
but feeling like a mailman,
another Elvis
to the students I will lead
through a workshop in a language
I itch to get my rusted cavities around.
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Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. - Dorothy Allison
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