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 by: Will Dockery - Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:33 UTC

On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 8:22:09 PM UTC-4, Heathcliff wrote:
>
> "There is a cure for the Blues
> [...]
> A white cabbie says there ain't never
> been no/great colored poets
> [...]
> and I think to myself man
> this cat is hip/ smooth,
> there's truth in his meter,
> so I sez to him I say, hey man,
> how come a professor like you
> is driving a cab?"
> -Ahmos Zu-Bolton, fair use excerpt from "Taxicab Blues".
>
> Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948,[1] Poplarville, Mississippi - March 8,
> 2005[2]) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and
> publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
>
> Read more at:
> http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton

Again, good find.

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 by: General-Zod - Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:16 UTC

Will Dockery wrote:

> Heathcliff wrote:
>
>> "There is a cure for the Blues
>> [...]
>> A white cabbie says there ain't never
>> been no/great colored poets
>> [...]
>> and I think to myself man
>> this cat is hip/ smooth,
>> there's truth in his meter,
>> so I sez to him I say, hey man,
>> how come a professor like you
>> is driving a cab?"
>> -Ahmos Zu-Bolton, fair use excerpt from "Taxicab Blues".
>>
>> Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948,[1] Poplarville, Mississippi - March 8,
>> 2005[2]) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and
>> publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
>>
>> Read more at:
>> http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton

> Again, good find.

One of the best from the superb and well remembered poet of the 1970s era...

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 by: W-Dockery - Mon, 24 Oct 2022 04:35 UTC

General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> Heathcliff wrote:
>>
>>> "There is a cure for the Blues
>>> [...]
>>> A white cabbie says there ain't never
>>> been no/great colored poets
>>> [...]
>>> and I think to myself man
>>> this cat is hip/ smooth,
>>> there's truth in his meter,
>>> so I sez to him I say, hey man,
>>> how come a professor like you
>>> is driving a cab?"
>>> -Ahmos Zu-Bolton, fair use excerpt from "Taxicab Blues".
>>>
>>> Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948,[1] Poplarville, Mississippi - March 8,
>>> 2005[2]) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and
>>> publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
>>>
>>> Read more at:
>>> http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton

>> Again, good find.

> One of the best from the superb and well remembered poet of the 1970s era...

Absolutely correct.

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 by: General-Zod - Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:53 UTC

Will Dockery wrote:

> Heathcliff wrote:
>>
>> "There is a cure for the Blues
>> [...]
>> A white cabbie says there ain't never
>> been no/great colored poets
>> [...]
>> and I think to myself man
>> this cat is hip/ smooth,
>> there's truth in his meter,
>> so I sez to him I say, hey man,
>> how come a professor like you
>> is driving a cab?"
>> -Ahmos Zu-Bolton, fair use excerpt from "Taxicab Blues".
>>
>> Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948,[1] Poplarville, Mississippi - March 8,
>> 2005[2]) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and
>> publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
>>
>> Read more at:
>> http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton

> Again, good find.

One of so many fine poems by the late great Ahmos Zu-Bolton...

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 by: W-Dockery - Sat, 29 Oct 2022 03:23 UTC

General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> Heathcliff wrote:
>>>
>>> "There is a cure for the Blues
>>> [...]
>>> A white cabbie says there ain't never
>>> been no/great colored poets
>>> [...]
>>> and I think to myself man
>>> this cat is hip/ smooth,
>>> there's truth in his meter,
>>> so I sez to him I say, hey man,
>>> how come a professor like you
>>> is driving a cab?"
>>> -Ahmos Zu-Bolton, fair use excerpt from "Taxicab Blues".
>>>
>>> Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1948,[1] Poplarville, Mississippi - March 8,
>>> 2005[2]) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and
>>> publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
>>>
>>> Read more at:
>>> http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton

>> Again, good find.

> One of so many fine poems by the late great Ahmos Zu-Bolton...

Agreed.

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