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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)
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She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis’ blood
on his hands.
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Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)
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The wind plays the world like an instrument. Blows through trees like flutes. But trees won’t grow in cement. And as heart beats bring percussion fallen trees bring repercussions. Cities play upon our souls like broken drums.
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Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)
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I am no earthling. I drink moonshine on Mars
and mistake meteors for stars ’cause I can’t hold
my liquor. But I can hold my breath and ascend
like wind to the black hole and play galaxophones
on the fire escape of your soul.
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Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)
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I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cut
the stems and placed them gently down my throat.
And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightest
hopes.
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Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)
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I stand on the corner of the block slinging
amethyst rocks. Drinkin 40’s of mother
earth’s private nectar stock. Dodgin cops.
’Cause Five-O be the 666 and I need a fix
of that purple rain. The type of shit that
drives membranes insane. Oh yeah, I’m in
the fast lane. Snorting candy yams. That free
my body and soul and send me like Shazaam!
Never question who I am. God knows.
And I know God, personally. In fact, he
lets me call him me. I be one with rain
and stars and things, with dancing feet
and watermelon wings. I bring the
sunshine and the moon. And wind blows
my tune.
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Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)
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Who me? I play scales. The scales of
dead fish of oil-slicked seas. My sister
blows wind through the hollows of fallen
trees. And we are the echoes of eternity.
Maybe you’ve heard of us.
We do rebirths, revolts, and resurrections.
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Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)