Yasiin Bey, the Former Mos Def, Poetry-Slams the Barclays Center, Hopes for Jay-Z Summit
Yasiin Bey hopes for a summit meeting with Jay-Z and Harry Belafonte to discuss the arena's effect on Brooklyn.
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Yasiin Bey hopes for a summit meeting with Jay-Z and Harry Belafonte to discuss the arena's effect on Brooklyn.
"There once was a man named Abe Lincoln/ Whose Union was rapidly shrinkin' ... "
Real or fake (please be real?), this poetic salute to "the smart Ninja Turtle" is one for the history books, or at least This Week in Internet.
"The marriage of poor kim #kardashian / was krushed like a kar in a krashian."
Opening line: "In the evening-dark of a place outside New York..."
Here's "Forgetfulness" and "Brush Up."
"The O'Hara poems are beautiful and deceiving. On one level they feel frivolous, but O'Hara always ties them up with a significant event or line that pulls everything taut..\"
"And Jesus said to/All his hungry disciples/'Hands off my fish, chumps'"
"I believe that you are to have a Birthday soon ... "