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Everything Happens To Me

from Criss Cross by John Sinclair & Mark Ritsema

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#97
“everything happens to me”

for mark ritsema


all my life I’ve paid
& paid, until my dues card
is punched up
on all 4 sides,
a child
of relative privilege who chose
to ‘take the way
of the lowest’ in most things—
race traitor & renegade,
beatnik,
dope fiend,
poet provocateur
living from hand to mouth
& euro to euro,
sleeping on the couches
& extra beds of my friends,
a man without a country
& a post office box in new orleans
for a permanent address,
a pre-pay vodafone
& a laptop computer,
one suitcase stuffed with clothing
& a bag full of manuscripts
& hand-burnt CDs—
to keep my head straight
& my heart right
to keep up my travels
& carry on the struggle
into another new year,
taking my little verses
& great big world outlook
everywhere people will have me

—amsterdam
january 7, 2004/
rotterdam
january 15, 2004

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from Criss Cross, released November 4, 2020

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John Sinclair Detroit, Michigan

"Sinclair is an iconic figure of ‘60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the anti-racist White Panther Party"

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"John has taken the Blues, many Blues, many Blues singers, their words, their feeling, their lives, their conditions, the places and traces of where they was and is.

--Amiri Baraka.
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