hip-hop music and culture || the breaker's performance

The Breaker's PerformanceAuthor(s): Ronaldo V. WilsonSource: Callaloo, Vol. 29, No. 3, Hip-Hop Music and Culture (Summer, 2006), p. 739Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4488345 .

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THE BREAKER'S PERFORMANCE

by Ronaldo V Wilson

Will wine and cheese glut my art - kill my pop-locking arms?

Will it de-coon my continence, make me a better black?

Had this been the rat poison under my stove, I would've left it alone.

Had this been lumpia, pancit, afood song, you'd give me an island.

If I leaped into the arms of the first white suit and broad chest I saw, I might sink.

This last and desperate arc by spine is no

nigger dance, no-blaxo-blessed-be.

I spin: my back bores into the floor. I tear out my song, not yours.

Callaloo 29.3 (2006) 739

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