Everyday
Everyday
We touch the new Earth opened up inside us. We call back to
our common inheritances. Our cultures, our respective, collective,
and commensurate indigeneities.
Our magic.
We know now the most enduring revolution must make manifest from within.
Ours is an undertaking—a floor to ceiling renovation of how we imagine
The quotidian texture, terrain, and dimensionalities of our unique and common
destinies.
We was born again / inside a Jacob Lawrence painting /
North of the mason dixon line / Who are the natives? /
the ones who’s offering we remember / their sacrifice
wont to forget / the Lenape / beaver / cushaw squash
yucca fruit / Domino’s sugar / Greg Tate / Junior’s
cheesecake / Ray’s famous pizza / roti / jouvert/ and
the Puerto Rican Day parade / maduros / Black Rock
Coalition / matza ball / pastrami and hot corn soup
We are the stories we live minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
How are we to make room for our mutual and respective belonging?
How do we share in the transcendence of our divinities as we move
toward and past each other everyday?
Sidewalks echo locate egg shell adidas beat box cheekbones wu tang /
Living Color / Tamara / Sandra St. Victor / Sophia Ramos /
The Family Stand / Patti Smith / Biggie Smalls /
Soul Sonic Force / tables turn / whip R&B, ABBA,
afrobeat and the conga into stiff peaks /
dub beats break rock in a Paradise Garage /
Larry Levan’s dance floor / wraps concrete round its rhythm .
No one group is the sole inheritor of our creative and cultural traditions. The invocation of the:
Legendary DJ and dance music icon Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage shows us glimpses of
parallel worlds reminding us how we have passed this way before. We have known what it
feels like for our proximity to sound and movement to make space for every epic thread of
our diverse cultural inheritances. How queerness can be esteemed and welcomed and
celebrated even as it welcomes every human to the dance floor. How all the city’s alienated
can fall in and make magic and history out of their freshly co-created space-times.
the air down here is a freestyle cypher / streaming
lyrics onto the droplets of mothers dreams /
The 3 train is a river / run free in brooklyn /
fed everyday by the blood of living and dead gods
daughter and sons / dreams wet with want /
perish the future /
every day / everyday / everyday
Everyday
We touch the new Earth opened up inside us. We call back to
our common inheritances. Our cultures, our respective, collective,
and commensurate indigeneities.
Our magic.
We know now the most enduring revolution must make manifest from within.
Ours is an undertaking—a floor to ceiling renovation of how we imagine
The quotidian texture, terrain, and dimensionalities of our unique and common
destinies.
We was born again / inside a Jacob Lawrence painting /
North of the mason dixon line / Who are the natives? /
the ones who’s offering we remember / their sacrifice
wont to forget / the Lenape / beaver / cushaw squash
yucca fruit / Domino’s sugar / Greg Tate / Junior’s
cheesecake / Ray’s famous pizza / roti / jouvert/ and
the Puerto Rican Day parade / maduros / Black Rock
Coalition / matza ball / pastrami and hot corn soup
We are the stories we live minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
How are we to make room for our mutual and respective belonging?
How do we share in the transcendence of our divinities as we move
toward and past each other everyday?
Sidewalks echo locate egg shell adidas beat box cheekbones wu tang /
Living Color / Tamara / Sandra St. Victor / Sophia Ramos /
The Family Stand / Patti Smith / Biggie Smalls /
Soul Sonic Force / tables turn / whip R&B, ABBA,
afrobeat and the conga into stiff peaks /
dub beats break rock in a Paradise Garage /
Larry Levan’s dance floor / wraps concrete round its rhythm .
No one group is the sole inheritor of our creative and cultural traditions. The invocation of the:
Legendary DJ and dance music icon Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage shows us glimpses of
parallel worlds reminding us how we have passed this way before. We have known what it
feels like for our proximity to sound and movement to make space for every epic thread of
our diverse cultural inheritances. How queerness can be esteemed and welcomed and
celebrated even as it welcomes every human to the dance floor. How all the city’s alienated
can fall in and make magic and history out of their freshly co-created space-times.
the air down here is a freestyle cypher / streaming
lyrics onto the droplets of mothers dreams /
The 3 train is a river / run free in brooklyn /
fed everyday by the blood of living and dead gods
daughter and sons / dreams wet with want /
perish the future /
every day / everyday / everyday
Everyday
We touch the new Earth opened up inside us. We call back to
our common inheritances. Our cultures, our respective, collective,
and commensurate indigeneities.
Our magic.
We know now the most enduring revolution must make manifest from within.
Ours is an undertaking—a floor to ceiling renovation of how we imagine
The quotidian texture, terrain, and dimensionalities of our unique and common
destinies.
We was born again / inside a Jacob Lawrence painting /
North of the mason dixon line / Who are the natives? /
the ones who’s offering we remember / their sacrifice
wont to forget / the Lenape / beaver / cushaw squash
yucca fruit / Domino’s sugar / Greg Tate / Junior’s
cheesecake / Ray’s famous pizza / roti / jouvert/ and
the Puerto Rican Day parade / maduros / Black Rock
Coalition / matza ball / pastrami and hot corn soup
We are the stories we live minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
How are we to make room for our mutual and respective belonging?
How do we share in the transcendence of our divinities as we move
toward and past each other everyday?
Sidewalks echo locate egg shell adidas beat box cheekbones wu tang /
Living Color / Tamara / Sandra St. Victor / Sophia Ramos /
The Family Stand / Patti Smith / Biggie Smalls /
Soul Sonic Force / tables turn / whip R&B, ABBA,
afrobeat and the conga into stiff peaks /
dub beats break rock in a Paradise Garage /
Larry Levan’s dance floor / wraps concrete round its rhythm .
No one group is the sole inheritor of our creative and cultural traditions. The invocation of the:
Legendary DJ and dance music icon Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage shows us glimpses of
parallel worlds reminding us how we have passed this way before. We have known what it
feels like for our proximity to sound and movement to make space for every epic thread of
our diverse cultural inheritances. How queerness can be esteemed and welcomed and
celebrated even as it welcomes every human to the dance floor. How all the city’s alienated
can fall in and make magic and history out of their freshly co-created space-times.
the air down here is a freestyle cypher / streaming
lyrics onto the droplets of mothers dreams /
The 3 train is a river / run free in brooklyn /
fed everyday by the blood of living and dead gods
daughter and sons / dreams wet with want /
perish the future /
every day / everyday / everyday