Oral Edification

[Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.]

Gratis Dictum:

From Raven's Bones an anthology of Tlingit and
Native American poetry and writings.

Published by the Sitka community association,
Sitka Alaska,1982.

Oral Edification
by
Andrew Hope.

How do storytellers
And Song people
Edit talk?
What to think?
What to say?
What to sing?
An old man walks to the microphone
At a Native convention

"I don't speak good English"
He tells the crowd
Before beginning his story

He talks about diplomacy
Words going out
Public statements
Words coming out
He knows word power
Sometimes words spear people, hurt people
Puncture skin
Tearing
Bleeding
War songs
Hate poems
Wild words
Sometimes you can't get around those words
Like Baraka's hard facts
Words coming down lickety split on public scandal

Those lines rail like a saxaphone
A geography of words
Literary maps
Describe the way you move
Along word landscapes
Telling about place
Place words carefully
Making peace with words
Healing words
Ceremonial words
Plan
Think how your words come out
Transform words
Thoughts
Gossip
Rumour
Talk Talk Talk Talk Talking book
Oral tradition
Spoken word
Conversation
Remembering
Surrender
(Watch their faces)
Stories
Acting
The famous;

"Fidelity to the given word. The man
Standing here by his word."
--after Confucius thru Pound

The translated word?
Think well
Speak well
Remember
Know your words
--
Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

--

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.
Let the games begin!
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[Lady Azure, Baroness of the North Pole]

I do, you on the other hand follow Delusions and Revisionist Historians.

[Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.]

Lady Azure, Baroness of the North Pole wrote:
> "Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq." wrote:
>
>
>>Gratis Dictum:
>>

>>ÔøΩ From Raven's Bones an anthology of Tlingit and

>>Native American poetry and writings.
>>
>>Published by the Sitka community association,
>>Sitka Alaska,1982.
>>
>>Oral Edification
>>by
>>Andrew Hope.
>>
>>How do storytellers
>>And Song people
>>Edit talk?
>>What to think?
>>What to say?
>>What to sing?
>>An old man walks to the microphone
>>At a Native convention
>>

>>ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ "I don't speak good English"
>>ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ He tells the crowd
>>ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ Before beginning his story

>>
>>He talks about diplomacy
>>Words going out
>>Public statements
>>Words coming out
>>He knows word power
>>Sometimes words spear people, hurt people
>>Puncture skin
>>Tearing
>>Bleeding
>>War songs
>>Hate poems
>>Wild words
>>Sometimes you can't get around those words
>>Like Baraka's hard facts

>>WordsÔøΩ coming down lickety split on public scandal

>>ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ "Fidelity to the given word.ÔøΩ The man
>>ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ Standing here by his word."
>>ÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩÔøΩ --after Confucius thru Pound

>>
>>The translated word?
>>Think well
>>Speak well
>>Remember
>>Know your words
>>--
>>Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.
>
>
> I do, you on the other hand follow Delusions and Revisionist Historians.
>

He talks about diplomacy

Words going out
Public statements
Words coming out
He knows word power
Sometimes words spear people, hurt people
Puncture skin
Tearing
Bleeding
War songs
Hate poems
Wild words
Sometimes you can't get around those words
Like Baraka's hard facts
Words coming down lickety split on public scandal

--

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.

[Lady Azure, Baroness of the North Pole]

"Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq." wrote:

> Lady Azure, Baroness of the North Pole wrote:
> > "Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq." wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Gratis Dictum:
> >>

> >>� From Raven's Bones an anthology of Tlingit and

> >>Native American poetry and writings.
> >>
> >>Published by the Sitka community association,
> >>Sitka Alaska,1982.
> >>
> >>Oral Edification
> >>by
> >>Andrew Hope.
> >>
> >>How do storytellers
> >>And Song people
> >>Edit talk?
> >>What to think?
> >>What to say?
> >>What to sing?
> >>An old man walks to the microphone
> >>At a Native convention
> >>

> >>���� "I don't speak good English"
> >>���� He tells the crowd
> >>���� Before beginning his story

> >>
> >>He talks about diplomacy
> >>Words going out
> >>Public statements
> >>Words coming out
> >>He knows word power
> >>Sometimes words spear people, hurt people
> >>Puncture skin
> >>Tearing
> >>Bleeding
> >>War songs
> >>Hate poems
> >>Wild words
> >>Sometimes you can't get around those words
> >>Like Baraka's hard facts

> >>Words� coming down lickety split on public scandal
> >>

> >>���� "Fidelity to the given word.� The man

> >>���� Standing here by his word."
> >>����������������� --after Confucius thru Pound

> >>
> >>The translated word?
> >>Think well
> >>Speak well
> >>Remember
> >>Know your words
> >>--
> >>Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.
> >
> >
> > I do, you on the other hand follow Delusions and Revisionist Historians.
> >
>
> He talks about diplomacy
> Words going out
> Public statements
> Words coming out
> He knows word power
> Sometimes words spear people, hurt people
> Puncture skin
> Tearing
> Bleeding
> War songs
> Hate poems
> Wild words
> Sometimes you can't get around those words
> Like Baraka's hard facts
> Words coming down lickety split on public scandal
>
> --

Yep and that is something you "NEEDLE DICK" just can't understand.
You want to be GOD defeating Satan.
Read Deu.33: twit!
Satan or "The Beast" is "GOD'S CHOSEN WEAPON".
The Red Bull is the "OXI" which pulls the "Great Cart"!
Like the Baghdavadghita say's people got it backwards.
The Reds or Dark Sidthe, who Represent the Sun are the "Children of Light", it
is the Lict Alfar, Blondie who Represent the Moon which are the TRUE DARK
ONES, BORN of the GREEN FIRE!
Nazi's and Rome formed alliance during WWII, Nazi= Gnosi, the
"Church of the God Caesar".
Jesus replaces God until "The End of Times".
Legends say specifically "THAT IS NOW"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
�

[Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.]

Lady Azure, Baroness of the North Pole wrote:
> "Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq." wrote:
>
>>>

>>>...you on the other hand follow Delusions and Revisionist Historians.

> ÔøΩ
>

..He talks about diplomacy

Words going out
Public statements
Words coming out
He knows word power
Sometimes words spear people, hurt people
Puncture skin
Tearing
Bleeding
War songs
Hate poems
Wild words
Sometimes you can't get around those words

Like Baraka's hard facts...

.......

In the poem ÔøΩWhen WeÔøΩll Worship JesusÔøΩ (from Hard Facts), Baraka
attacks capitalist AmericaÔøΩs tradition of Christianity. The religion
with which the ÔøΩbeastsÔøΩ of Africa had been domesticated into slaves
who would endure their suffering as a race (using the suffering of
Jesus as a model) for the existential good of their souls. Baraka
takes the proverbial quote by Karl Marx that ÔøΩReligionÔøΩis the opium of
the people,ÔøΩ and puts it in historical context for African-Americans:

we aint gonna worship jesus cause jesus dont exist
xcept in song and story except in ritual and dance, except in slum stained
tears or trillion dollar opulence stretching back in historyÔøΩ..
stop moanin about jesus, stop sweatin and crying and stompin
and dyin for jesus (Baraka Reader, 253-254).

Baraka goes beyond criticizing Christianity and its role in the
oppression of African-Americans. He goes on to offer a new religion to
African-Americans based on them and their past as well as their
struggles and beauty:

we worship the strength in us
we worship our selves
we worship the light in us
we worship the warmth in us
we worship the world
we worship the love in us
we worship our selves
we worship nature
we worship ourselves
we worship the life in us, and science, and knowledge, and transformation
of the visible world (Ibid).

--

Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.