LJ Idol Season 11: Week 14 - Barn Raising

[encrefloue]

“It takes a village

to raise a child,”

and Uncle said no child

is left behind,

but Uncle doesn’t speak Kiswahili,

so maybe

he didn’t leave a village behind

for the children.

Les bobos, boujee kids

of the bourgeoisie

play Jacques A Dit,

but Jacques told me

to follow the beat

of La Coumbite,

to

let the song

of the rake

and the hands

of the throng

break the soil

of

Comments

[karmasoup]

I am simultaneously heartened and devastated by this, because your vision is perfect and your delivery is beautiful, but it's so tragically true, and that truth is a disgusting, disgraceful, despicable stain on our collective souls.

[halfshellvenus]

our
deeds
seeds
from
which
freedom
buds.

I loved this neat evolution, and the optimism in it. There is such contrast here between the beauty of the ideal (and what we've realized of it) vs. how we have failed it and have let ourselves backslide in just a few short years.

[d0gs]

beautiful!!