A Poem Called Here.... (feat. Low Leaf & Qur'an Shaheed)-Def Sound/Low Leaf

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Emmanuel Ricketts [00:19.397] The name of this poem is “Here” [00:23.297] The name of this poem is Haiti [00:26.099] The name of this poem is “Here” [00:28.880] The name of this poem is Palestine [00:31.486] The name of this poem is America [00:33.083] The name is Flint, Michigan [00:34.917] The name is China [00:36.065] The name is South Central [00:37.150] The name is Minnesotta [00:38.201] The name is Johannesburg [00:39.356] The name is Panama [00:40.387] The name is Belize [00:41.385] The name is Here [00:43.180] Here is a strategy [00:45.575] Here we can’t run away from we [00:48.199] Here needs new imagination [00:50.766] There’s nothing performative about Here [00:53.248] Here has no guestlist or RSVP [00:55.867] We are here whether we want to be or not [00:59.738] Since I been here I’ve been reminded that freedom is health now [01:03.484] Freedom is breathing now [01:05.585] Freedom is not hating your roommate [01:08.653] You know the simple shit [01:11.457] Like a good meal [01:14.086] Here is the re-examination [01:17.218] The doing of the deep work of the unavoidable [01:20.184] An inventory of the soul [01:21.869] Here is an everyday choreography of the possible [01:25.092] Dwelling in the wounds [01:26.803] Really dwelling in these wounds [01:29.075] The deconstruction of fiction of the stable [01:32.419] Here in messy entanglements of empathy and apathy [01:36.134] An assemblage of a fragmented people [01:38.571] Here [01:39.325] We water dancer of the mundane [01:41.939] We wake up [01:43.667] Scribble scripture [01:45.156] Scroll a lil bit [01:46.102] And we like a picture [01:47.470] Sip a tincture [01:48.604] Made a smoothie [01:50.119] Watched a movie [01:51.402] And then I let the stillness really move me [01:55.206] We living life [01:57.105] Through cell phone [01:58.492] Accepting cookies [01:59.703] Before ourselves though [02:01.190] We laugh at memes but fear stuck to us like velcro [02:05.656] The world is so different [02:07.011] The veil has been lifted [02:08.259] This show is unscripted [02:09.640] But the cameras are still rolling now [02:12.705] So whose hand are you holding now [02:17.288] Restless in the wreckage [02:19.526] We [02:19.935] Unravel [02:21.004] Undoing [02:21.818] Entangled [02:22.618] Unfolding [02:24.578] All in the open now [02:25.305] Here [02:26.489] We can see what your hairline really look like [02:29.338] What your mouth really do [02:32.949] Unlearning silence [02:34.616] Using survival tactic [02:36.541] Here is a current event [02:38.380] This is what we are at play [02:40.314] Re-imagining new playgrounds [02:42.045] Here we must move the people while staying put [02:46.409] We must move the people while staying put [02:49.793] The revolution will be collaborative [02:52.662] Here the urgency in which one must express oneself, [02:56.229] This urge that one must remain artist even without an audience [02:59.649] The threat we face is invisible [03:01.268] A virus can’t vote [03:02.658] Can’t enslave [03:03.515] The virus has no age [03:05.301] The virus has no borders [03:07.079] The virus is here [03:08.234] The virus is a mirror [03:09.422] The virus is racism [03:11.009] The virus is more like vibration [03:13.209] Although you can’t hold it you know it’s real [03:15.991] You know it’s here [03:17.315] When yourself threatens to smother you, [03:19.462] You will open your mouth [03:21.008] Not to yell or to scream, but to find your way to song [03:25.832] Some way of breaking [03:28.413] Some way to upheaval [03:30.291] Some form of magic [03:31.816] Some form of music [03:33.274] Melanin filled resilience [03:35.727] Here We have to imagine what we are if we are not producing products [03:40.377] We are given a break [03:44.234] Here we break [03:45.515] Here we sanctuary new forms of family kinships used as resistance [03:51.163] Here is a form of improvised connectedness [03:55.196] Solidarity is a weapon [03:57.140] A support immune system if you will [03:59.160] If you won’t that’s fine this work here is as necessary as much as it is invisible [04:03.550] Here we chorus, [04:04.802] We swarm [04:05.833] Ensemble, [04:06.662] Mutual aid society [04:08.031] Louder than the endless record of struggle on repeat ready to be sampled, and resampled and resampled over and over [04:16.811] Meant to be passed on like generational mixtape [04:18.840] Here is soundtrack to a history that hurts [04:21.904] Here [04:22.846] We chorus [04:23.522] We concert [04:24.478] We blueprint [04:25.413] We work song [04:26.080] Collectively Calypso [04:26.905] Organized Orchestra [04:28.589] Techno spiritual [04:29.544] JuJu spiritual [04:30.501] JuJu apparatus [04:32.436] We move here in stillness [04:34.969] Because the best musicians listen more than they play [04:40.131] Here we Black noise finding a listening in one another [04:45.200] Today is what I have [04:47.396] Here is where I am [04:49.561] Today is where I am [04:51.822] Here is what I have [04:53.632] From Here [04:54.392] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away [04:57.792] Sighs filled with working from home [05:00.740] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away [05:02.941] Eyes look like levy’s [05:04.329] Hearts weigh glaciers [05:06.695] Hunger for touch [05:07.527] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away [05:09.648] Cerfuwed into confusion [05:11.455] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away [05:14.496] Letting a smile peek through the uncertainty [05:18.759] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away [05:21.313] Mouths miming I miss you’s through facemasks [05:24.343] Longing for a time not so long ago [05:26.933] Me and my mother hug from 10 ft away [05:29.583] Like [05:30.765] Like [05:31.360] Like [05:32.662] Last week