back then
back when there was still a reason to cross allen street
back
before berlin
when she was red
bone
from buffalo
when she was h i g h yellow
when it was ‘if
you’re not a staylow then you gotta go home
and that means you
too jared leto’
back then
one night
one
little night
i heard a man
one man
a
book man
the man from the book store
he was stammering
stomping like he was coming straight outtacompton
spitting
and bloodletting
relentless
the first word came first
it came right on the first stomp
it exploded
he said ‘participatory’
yeah he said
‘participatory’
and then he said it again
and again
and again
until it rocked with an uneven white boy rhythm that took
its cue
from when the stomp came down
and that alone
he
said it again and
again
‘participatory participatory participatory
participatory participatory participatory
democracy democracy democracy’
yeahyeahyeah
he said
‘participatory participatory
democracy democracy
participatory participatory
democracy democracy’
then some of us started saying it
and then more
of us started saying it
then it was back and forth
‘participatory’
‘democracy’
‘participatory’
‘democracy’
the man said
‘participatory’
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