Clothes Off

[the mingo]

East coast west coast
mississippi baby
new orleans wasn't born
'til Bob Kaufman
was born there
1925
and San Francisco died
when Bob Kaufman died there
1986
I don't care who knows it
or who doesn't know it
the math don't matter
knowledge don't reach
and identity is fluid
more than water

[mnaz]

Identity is fluid, and some day,
Bob Kaufman will be born again
and die again, and I hope if I'm
around, I might meet him.

[the mingo]

I have it from a trusted source that he won't be back til the Resurrection but if he did come back I'd like to meet him simply because he wrote hardly anything down, greater even than Han-shan in that regard. Meeting someone with as little vanity as that would be an uptick to my soul.

[mnaz]

True.