Thursday, February 21, 2008

Terrible Swift Sword


On the ceiling above my bed I have a full size poster of Tupac Shakur, framed and matted in glorious black and white.

It is the well known photo of the late great rap artist giving up the finger.

Mystic Tupac.

Tupac, the thug-spirit; Tupac, the dream; Tupac, the immortal; Tupac, the ethereal; Tupac, the thug angel; Tupac and the finger, that finger, the holy god-smack finger; gesture of gestures, the finger, that finger.

Oh, Word! The finger!

Every night the last thing, and every morning the first thing I see is the finger.

Mystic Tupac.

Finger like a sword. That finger like a sword.

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