a friend/lover spoke to me of C.L.R JAMES one night: «a brilliant caribbean Marxist, scholar, [brother]… died in his late eighties with wives nearly sixty years his junior.»

a friend/lover spoke to me of C.L.R JAMES one night: «a brilliant caribbean Marxist, scholar, [brother]… died in his late eighties with wives nearly sixty years his junior.»

talking earlier with friends about the arab slave trade. libya. lebanon. syria. 1000 years of bodies bartered. the united states moving into fascism. white science. tuskegee experiments and now ancestry dot com. the genetic market. palo mayombe. bones. blood. saturn transiting capricorn in our various houses — 8th and 4th, respectively. ancestors. bones. blood. police state. colonial state. the university being a statue of police state. colonial state. misa. ocha. misa. ocha. orion and stargate. melanin and chlorophyll. 90 degrees and 180 degrees and 360 degrees and dimensional shifts. but it’s also very mundane — smoking blunts, eating peas n rice, all the while NYPD stalkin the house down the block, this juxtaposed with that,

«there are two ways to lose oneself: walled segregation in the particular or dilution in the ‘universal’.
aimé césaire, quoted in his letter to Maurice Thomez, general secretary for the french communist party.