Rant & Rave: RIP Amiri Baraka

Yet another great loss for the literary world, Playwright, poet and author Amiri Baraka died Thursday, 9 January 2014. RIP, love forever!

Death Is Not As Natural As You Fags Seem to Think – Amiri Baraka

I hunt
the black puritan.
                            (Half-screamer
in dull tones
of another forest.

Respecter of power. That it transform, and enlarge  
Hierarchy crawls over earth (change exalting space  

Dried mud to mountain, cape and whip, swirled  
Walkers, and riders and flyers.
Language spread into darkness. Be Vowel
                                                            and value  
                                                            Consonant
                                                            and direction.  
Rather the lust of the thing
than across to droop at its energies. In melted snows  
the leather cracks, and pure men claw at their bodies.  
Women laugh delicately, delicately rubbing their thighs.

And the dead king laughs, looking out the hole  
in his tomb. Seeing the poor  
singing his evil songs.