he brought in a couple of
heavyhitters Baldwin Dostoyevsky who saw as he saw saw a very simple premise which obviously has been passed down through
time
What do you mean? his granddaughter
asked him
You got answers I got questions
her expression warped with
confusion or was that confusement addled sobriety the confluence of confusion and
entertainment
Ohgrampa.
nothing more
then
Would you excuse me(soo polite)? I’ll be right
back. I have to tell Momma something.
Help yourself he replied
he helped himselfhe always hadhe
never asked for permission one doesnt ask
permission to flaunt or disrupt the status quowhats deemed acceptable permissible decent isnt it a shame that socalled looks a bit like socialed doesnt it
socalled decency is prescribed by the majority that which holds itself in esteem and to step away from it deserves ridicule deserves to be despised shamed so thinskinned so
easily bruised so effete
he watched his granddaughter go
into the house from where they sat on the front porch together enjoying conversation
and the refreshment of freshsqueezed chilled oranges
he knew he confused her
he talked straight
Just say what you mean little
girldont get caught up in trying to say it nicely or not to mean to hurt
someones feeling Theyll get over it Theyll get over it as long as your intentions are goodif you meant it constructively Youve heard of constructive criticism
Ill bet its what teachers do to help you improve and we all can be improved There is nothing perfect about human beingstheres
really good but never perfect
I talk straight
No. Not really grampa. You talk she
struggled for the word you talk funny.
Funny
Like riddles. Funny riddles. You don’t make sense.
I dont make sense
You
don’t.
How dont I make sense
You don’t, that’s all.
Whatever
Huh?
Basically youre giving me whatever I hate that term Its dismissive onesided You cant be bothered
to complete the argument so Whatever Were
done Over
Grampa, you don’t make sense.
However my little love if you
were more patientan youre not youre not a patient person If you were an I know Im asking a lot from
you youre only nine but if you gave what
I said some thoughtif you were patient then
Im sure youd see I make a lot of sense when I say You got answers I got
questions
Use your imagination
evidently thats all it takes to chase a little girl into the house to her momma
shed be back
she forgot her orange juice
Baldwin said The purpose of art
is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers.
Dostoyevsky We have all the
answers. It is the questions we don’t know.
he wasnt original
few are
however he always sought to use his
imagination
recently he read
Claudia Rankines Citizen: An American Lyric who also pulled on Jimmy and Fyodor and as he told his granddaughter Ms
Rankine also cited the necessity of imagination
Because White men can’t/police
their imagination/Black men are dying
figurin seminal
around Saturday, 3 12. 16
0653,
Saturday, 7 7. 18
1054,
Sunday, 8 7. 18
Kendrick Lamar God is a Gangsta (Complicated) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZytWFm7x0
