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Amiri Reading "Dope"

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Amiri Reading "Dope"

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Harmony Holiday
Dec 27, 2022
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Amiri Reading "Dope"

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Here’s one of the many great recordings of him reading this poem live. It might as well be a sermon. It puts me in the mind of something he once told me, about John Coltrane practicing so much a pastor gave him the key to a church so the neighbors would stop complaining. Pretend this is the sermon the ghosts delivered during those private woodsheds. Tha…

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