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  • Re: Poetry Profiles #2 - Ahmos Zu-Bolton

    From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) to alt.poetry on Thu Jul 17 16:52:41 2025
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    Will Dockery 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



    "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

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  • From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) to alt.poetry on Fri Jul 18 04:29:14 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.poetry

    Will Dockery 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



    "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

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