A15: Lincoln Flies Without Wings (3:32)
(Now students fly with me to the dawn of history…toot…‘n’ the whistle…plunk…‘n’ the boom…it’s very stimulating)
(You know it may seem hard to imagine but once upon a time people didn’t have any such thing as television…didn’t have any radios…‘n’ if you wanted to have any music you just had to make it yerself…it was only the kings ‘n’ queens who could afford to have somebody else make music for them…& you might not think it would be very good music, everybody making their own music…but you’d be surprised)
Cut out/slice sides/Cut out the middle ‘n’ you cut out the wings/ Cut out the middle ‘n’ you cut out the wings/Not on my watch my hard shell sings/Put it on the board ‘n’ you make it two things/Cut out the middle off with the wings/Rekkerd skips one time two times skips two time skips on the rekkerd ‘n’ time skips the time skips on the rekkerd ‘n’ it skips every time flip it on the side ‘n’ skip on the side flip it on the side ‘n’ every other side skips on the rekkerd ‘n’ the rekkerd one time skips every time ‘n’ one ‘n’ two times/Mr. Abe Lincoln doesn’t feel well today/He’s driving in his Lincoln into Christendom’s Gate/Smiles as he flies waving to JFK/I know it must be true in the paper today/I’d certainly have seen him if it wasn’t too late/When am I gonna get a seat with the Saints?
The British-Somali poet draws upon everything from leftfield folk to minimalist spoken-word, bound together by simple-yet-cutting wordplay. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2021