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Kwansaba Tribute for EBR  (Eugene B. Redmond)

By Charlois Lumpkin


A drum call summon’d him from some 
future place and Redmond gave it voice
a clear centric song of ages bidding
WELCOME.  Enter naked this seminal world of
Ism’s clutch’n Memwars of Ibo, Egypto past
perfect lives smell’n the blood incense of
poets who learned to joust while burning. 
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