this past saturday i had an all day (9-5) class entitled Swamp Writing: Writing from the Body. basically doing yoga exercises before you write.

i met this man who involved with the black panthers and some other civil rights organizations. anyway after all that he went on to work for bank of america. go figure. he was a bank of america for something like (double-digit) years and was laid off and ended up on skid row downtown. he took up tai chi (forgive me if i jacked up the spelling) to deal with his anger and decided he "wasn't going to be a victim."

his story was pretty crazy. if you've ever driven downtown LA you know it happens, but i guess i never really had a story to put to a face. i assumed they (the homeless) had been through some shit, but never really gave it that much thought. i just know none of them ever thought "i want to be homeless when i grow up."

this guy trip me out cause he used to be 'in the struggle.' he had to be in his 60s. you could here it in his voice. he didn't just have a deep voice, the bass in his voice 'knocked.' come to think about it, i can imagine hip-hop coming out of something like that. i think it was kevin powell (i'm lazy with the links sorry) who said people ask what it would be like if Pac was here, but the real question is whether or not Pac could even exist right now. would the time and the consciousness of the people give birth to a tupac. so i wonder if hip-hop could be born right now. if the birth of hip-hop took the same route from jamaica to new york (i think), could it be born right now? would the consciousness of the people be fertile enough to birth something like that.

back on the subject: where do you go after anticipating and working for the revolution to occur within the next 24 hours... to B of A? i'd never imagine that. B of A let alone skid row.

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