HARD.

The Day Flies Off Without Me

The planes bound for all points everywhere
etch lines on my office window. From the top floor
London recedes in all directions, and beyond:
the world with its teeming hearts.

I am still, you move, I am a point of reference on a map;
I am at zero meridian as you consume the longitudes.
The pact we made to read our farewells exactly
at two in the afternoon with you in the air
holds me like a heavy winter coat.

Your unopened letter is in my pocket, beating.

By John Stammers

Thanks The Clinic

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised......(Thank God)

Gil Scott Heron, despite all his faults he's gleaming in the black community, but his literature, simply does not correlate with a young black readership. The novel, "The Nigger Factory" is about, young black men, in a black American university being oppressed by the underfunding and lack of progressive teaching the school can provide. These issues are difficult for a black British student to relate to .

Firstly, the passion not longer exists so explicitly in our community. We had the Toxteth and the various Brixton and Tottenham riots, the passion for extreme change seems a remnant of the past.

Secondly We never had black universities, and any form overt socialisation, and that of which did occur, is seen to be of a more subtle nature, than that of segregated America.

Thirdly the novel is very slow paced, and the underlying factor is the revolution never occurred in reality, the uprising some dreamed of, was meant by a peaceful and docile occurred instead, a of which we now called multiculturalism (Well kind of).

I have been unfairly harsh, but a man like Gil Scott Heron has a lot to live up to.