SUNDAY
saturday night live vice prez debate starring incomporable tina fey
SATURDAY EVENING
well well, somebody went into my site and ripped off everything ive ever written
went to everypage and stayed a couple of seconds a page,
not long enuf to read anything, just long
enuf to select all and copy, always knew that
was a concern w/putting your stuff online
and i guess its respect of a sort - i got a book
worth of stuff on here easy, just trying to
finish novel before i whip it into shape, been
clocking redpen today, got my groove on
so whoever stole my stuff you best to work
fast, one hopes instead that its some
academic preparing to study/write about my work
but w/my luck its more likely a thief
price of doing business on the internet
well i am more about the dispersion of my vision and the seeding of my words than i am making money or getting credit and i aint got time to worry bout gnats and fleas
i figure whoever steals my raw stuff is
stealing trash, wont nobody be able to riff it
like me, nobody else got my vision and i wouldnt
put it online if i wasnt prepared to lose it
let me give you a hand sucker, the back of my left hand,
one day i plan to sit down, extract the best into my
hoodoo holybook
what do you plan to do with it
somebody want to be a imitation rickydoc
be my guest
rdoc
SATURDAY
now that the bill been passed, the same greedy fat cats that got us into this mess
will be crowding up to the trough to get a piece of the asset management action
i predict this money will be about as effective as that 600 they sent us and will instead be the bush administrations usual excercise in crony capitalism and governance
my understanding is that once we pay them for their foolishness the hope is that they will now act responsibly, dont hold your breath, or buy a new home
i thought this sarah palin flowchart was cute, what she couldnt memorize or find on her stack of index cards she just refused to answer and for that we got folk saying she won the debate, politics in america today
i was thinking about sites i dont check regularly because of that last post and thought to see whats happening over at chickenbones, me and rudy used to be close but what little play i was getting there i dont get no more, he dissed me like so many folk do - the literary world has basically written me off
so 1st thing i notice is their listing of writers, im not on it, probably why i dont go by like i used to, hurts me everytime
but john o killens was, and john is my mentor, so i went to their john o killens page and put my name in just to see and got this quote from my boy keith gilyard, who has just finished a john o killens tome:
"I have to stop and thank Louis too for his insight and support. He sort of inspired me to write Liberation Memories. Louis knew and was vocal about the fact that John had been underappreciated in critical circles. Only a few people—like Addison Gayle and William Wiggins, Jr.—tried to do him justice in the scholarly literature. But even they missed articulating some of the richness of John's writings. And Arthur Flowers is a good friend of mine—and present-day underappreciated novelist and Killens protégé. Interview with Keith Gilyard"
underappreciated, that was a delicate way of putting it, keith one
of the few folk in afroam literature that hasnt written me off
it was keith and safiya (and toby wolff) hooked me up here at syracuse
i wonder sometime if toby regrets betting on me like he did
if nothing else i got to come thru for the folk who have kept the faith
ive decided to start my redpen today, im tired of waiting, still two more manuscripts
to wade thru but im tired of waiting, get thru this redpen and i got a novel
wish me luck, no better still pray for me
aint taking in no more manuscripts till i finish this novel
no more trying to help other folk till i help myself
underappreciated
by god and all thats holy
i wil show them all
rdoc
Comments