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Let us answer “present” at the rebirth of the World
as white flower cannot rise without the leaven.
Who else will teach rhythm to the world deadened by machines and cannons?
Who will sound the shout of joy at daybreak to wake orphans and the dead?
Tell me, who will bring back the memory of life to the man of gutted hopes?
They call us men of cotton, coffee and oil,
They call us men of death, but we are men of dance
whose feet get stronger as we pound upon the ground.

Que nous répondions présent à la renaissance du Monde
Ainsi le levain qui est nécessaire à la farine blanche.
Car qui apprendrait le rythme au monde défunt des machines
et des canons ?
Qui pousserait le cri de joie pour réveiller morts et orphe-
lins à l’aurore ?
Dites, qui rendrait la mémoire de vie à l’homme aux espoirs
éventés ?
Ils nous disent les hommes du coton du café de l’huile
Ils nous disent les hommes de la mort.
Nous sommes les hommes de la danse, dont les pieds
reprennent vigueur en frappant le sol dur.

- Leopold Senghor



This poem popped out at me last night. It was previously unknown to me. I guess I needed to know. You can read more of Leopold Senghor’s “Masques” here.

English translation by Melvin Dixon.

Thanks to the sight in the Netherlands that gives me good reading from I Ching.

One cannot live in both the present and the past. – Picasso

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Always around this time of year I get super sad + inspired + wondering what an artist can do in the world + I think what would John do?

“I began to see all these different parts of me. I felt like hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another. I realized then what the problem is that I have to solve. I have to be all of those people. But can’t be all those people all the time. And in the past, whenever I became one of them, I became that thing, that person so totally that I forgot the others. I don’t know how to stop. I have no device, no magic to keep an easy flow from one part of my personality to another. I need that because, the secret is changing.” John Lennon

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