#michael harper

psst..... lee, nathan, and sapphire (alone) r transparent (sapphire & nathan’s wings r just see through no hidden message smh)

remember when i said those character maker thingies would look like them? ha, yeet

remember when i said id stop changing their names? ha, yeet

remember when i said id stop changing their roles & personalities? ha, yeet

Cher Loyd - Activated (Michael Harper Remix).

for John Callahan

a love supreme, a love supreme a love supreme, a love supreme

Sex fingers toes

in the marketplace

near your father's church

in Hamlet, North Carolina—

witness to this love

in this calm fallow

of these minds,

there is no substitute for pain:

genitals gone or going,

seed burned out,

you tuck the roots in the earth,

turn back, and move

by river through the swamps,

singing: a love supreme, a love supreme;

what does it all mean?

Loss, so great each black

woman expects your failure

in mute change, the seed gone.

You plod up into the electric city—

your song now crystal and

the blues. You pick up the horn

with some will and blow

into the freezing night:

a love supreme, a love supreme—

Dawn comes and you cook

up the thick sin 'tween

impotence and death, fuel

the tenor sax cannibal

heart, genitals, and sweat

that makes you clean—

a love supreme, a love supreme—

Why you so black?

cause I am

why you so funky?

cause I am

why you so black?

cause I am

why you so sweet?

cause I am

why you so black?

cause I am

a love supreme, a love supreme:

So sick

you couldn't play Naima,

so flat we ached

for song you'd concealed

with your own blood,

your diseased liver gave

out its purity,

the inflated heart

pumps out, the tenor kiss,

tenor love:

a love supreme, a love supreme—