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Poet Laureate: 2001 headlines internationally & at home in our great nation headlines "Who Blew Up America" headlines

"Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed/Who told 4000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers/To stay home that day..Who make money from war/Who make dough from fear and lies/Who want the world like it is/Who want the world to be ruled by imperialism and national oppression and terror/violence, and hunger and poverty..."

AMIRI B 10/01

Absolutely explicit, trying society's preconceived notion of security through his own absense of preconceived notion of writing. The "All is permitted" vibration, Baraka demands complete freedom in expression through poetry - all of which introduced in "How You Sound" 1959.

Born LeRoi Jones, he had a brief flight with the US Air Force until an anonymous letter found - speaking out on the presumably communist commanding officer -- granted the words of which 'honorably' discharged him from the service. Finding the Greenwich Village with the Beats, he later got an Obie award from the the "Village Voice" and it is known that he worked in the "Gotham BOOK Mart", a literary salon and cultural landmark in Manhattan where he interfaced with many other minds and throats - (years of operation: 1920-2007).

Notably civil rights, black rights, anti-colonialism/ imperialism/ racism /oppressionism... oriented --he was a politically active artist in Cuba for some time and rioted on the streets after Dr. King's assasination, carrying a gun in his pocket, he was arrested, though he resisted and was sentenced three years jail time -- of which was thrown out shortly there after the offense in the rioted streets - post Dr. King... (Imagine the moment) -

First wife, Hettie Cohen, white and Jewish.. Malcolm X was taken down and Baraka "began to hold all white people responsible"... one day he simply left wife and children -- he explains.. (Hettie CohenGoGothe Gnding) -- "I was caught downtown one day with white people and left. As simple as that. Like one day you got public hair" -- Makes perfect since to me... seemingly, the freedom from preconceived notions extends into private life, and like the poem of which everything must be made to fit into, so is the same with life -- there is no "design for what the poem/ i.e. life/ ought to be" ("How You Sound??")

The "Blessed Prince": Amiri Baraka, so named in 1968. So blessed, as to continually express the explicit content that begun in the 60's, and foreshadowed later 1st ammendment stories of the 21st century... Many wonder as to his elicit content as if it pertains only to his oppresion as a black man or whether it slams up against his subjectory views: racism/sexism/homophobia and anti-semitism?? He complimented his first wife in a later poem calling her a "cute fat jew," he told a white woman she could help with the movement by dying: i quote, "You can help by dying. You are a cancer" -- yeah -- What else, he said, "We (blacks) must eliminate the white man before we can draw a free breath on this planet" which is nothing compared to his claims that the white men owe him (and blacks) everything.. and that they want him (and blacks) to rape 'their' women -- ouch

None the less, we arrived at the 21st century and Amiri Baraka is the Poet Laureate of 2001, even after his poem "Who Blew Up America" connecting former President, B**H, to the attacks. His first ammendment story kept him from stepping down as poet Laureate, ironically enough, appointed by the government, poet laureate is expected to write poems for state occassions and government events -- well done Baraka! poetry lives in government -- 2002 granted him Poet Laureate of Newark County schools -- more and more of the 1st ammendment project.

Loftly ideas -- he proposed the 'invention' of AIDS, as to kill Blacks and well as a connection between former civil rights heros Dr. King and Lincoln -- Which of course leads us to the present and the most recent statment on O'Bama -- for everyone knows who Lincoln reincarnated as.. YOU GOT IT