#in prgress

Answers in Progress  by Imamu Ameer Baraka

Walk through life Beautiful more than anything Stand in the sunlight Walk through life Love all the things That make you strong, be lovers, be anything For all the people of Earth

A taste of random snippets form all over the timeline:

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…“I am the great commander of the Western lands. I haveraised empires, burnednations, and toppled gods. I have lived for dozen of your lifetimes. Ihave watched all of human history pull itself from every corner of this islandlike a sea to crash upon the rocks, only to swell again in a great wave. Andyet…”

Perhaps he saw the fear in her eyes, for he gavepause. 

“You make mewish I could assemble all the grains of sand on the shore and turn them intowords, throw them at you like a poet, like lighting.”…

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…She was thin. Stretched. She was weak and cowardly andfor many long, long moments she wished for a countenance so different thanherself. Some heroine all confidence and defiance and spite, bright anddangerous as an open flame, brilliant, resourceful, everything she was not.

She was dull and common and a coward. She wouldn’tleave. She couldn’t. She was a daughter of the Hayashi, and had failed in hersimple role in every respect. All her rebellion had been spent. She was noheroine. She was a fallen noble spinster in a fallen noble family, pregnantwith the child of a demon.

Her hands were very cold as she laid them on herswelling belly….

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…“Look at those ears.”

“Adorable, like I said.”

“Adorable? I’m a little frightened. Look at its teeth!”

“Haah? Frightened? From that little thing? He’s a puppy!”

“Puppy’s can still bite!”

“He’s more than a puppy anyway.”

“Where’s his mother?”

“Talking to the manager.”

“Oh? She staring work here?”

“She can’t!”

“Why not?”

“No no, it’s nothing like that, she’s just hiding out for awhile.”

“Hiding? Why?”

“Geeze Mimi, isn’t it obvious?”

“I think it’s rather romantic.”…

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