Ahmos ZuBolton Storyteller
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“the ways in which a
nonwhite, Africanist
presence & personae
can be constructed”
—Toni Morrison, Playing
in the Dark: Whiteness
and the Literary Imagination
you never told me—
the same story twice
the same way no matter
what people expected
the history of hoodoo voodoo—
you didn’t tell those linear stories
but rather events that were laid
out right then in the moment
your hoodoo voodoo stories—
about time freezing over and
zeroing in on the moment
catching a brand new story
your stories just happened—
they never repeated themselves
nor were they told the same way like
the usual fairy tale stories get told
your impromptu stories—
had extemporaneous, spontaneous
lives of their own, long lifetimes
like proust’s involuntary memory
you were on your own then—
telling all your hoodoo voodoo
stories, each with a new lesson plan
how to live with the changes
__________________
“the ways in which a
nonwhite, Africanist
presence & personae
can be constructed”
—Toni Morrison, Playing
in the Dark: Whiteness
and the Literary Imagination
you never told me—
the same story twice
the same way no matter
what people expected
the history of hoodoo voodoo—
you didn’t tell those linear stories
but rather events that were laid
out right then in the moment
your hoodoo voodoo stories—
about time freezing over and
zeroing in on the moment
catching a brand new story
your stories just happened—
they never repeated themselves
nor were they told the same way like
the usual fairy tale stories get told
your impromptu stories—
had extemporaneous, spontaneous
lives of their own, long lifetimes
like proust’s involuntary memory
you were on your own then—
telling all your hoodoo voodoo
stories, each with a new lesson plan
how to live with the changes
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