Today on Covered and Bound

I talked about Motion in Poetry...by Spoken Words Artist Motion, I played a track from her called "Life Sentence" I read this poem by Nikki Giovanni, "choices" and I spoke of the Truth and Reconciliation that Canada has started with it's First Nation People, then I stopped for a moment and acknowledged that we are on Native Land. I played a song for Asheda, "Love The Life You Live," by Midnite and played two Linton Kwesi Johnson tracks, From his album, "More Time" Poems of Shape and Motion and Mi Revalueshanary Fren, from "tings and times" I found out that Linton Kwesi Johnson became one of only two living poets to be published in a Penguin Modern Classic in 2002.
Today I was UNSTOPPABLE

Choices

if i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do

it's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do

if i can't have
what i want...then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

since i can't go
where i need
to go...then i must...go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral

when i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
i know
but that's why mankind alone among the animals
learns to cry

by Nikki Giovanni