Ani DiFranco is Such a Righteous Babe
Just a taste of a poem from her website, or listen to it...
here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors
who daily provide women with a choice
who stand down a threat the size of oklahoma city
just to listen to a young woman's voice
...
cuz take away our playstations
and we are a third world nation
under the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that phony election
i mean
it don't take a weatherman
to look around and see the weather
jeb said he'd deliver florida, folks
and boy did he ever
and we hold these truths to be self evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me
cuz i am a poem heeding hyper-distillation
i've got no room for a lie so verbose
i'm looking out over my whole human family
and i'm raising my glass in a toast
by MG at 4:56 PM
5 Comments:
Ani rocks!
When I saw her in 2002, she had something to say that I wasn't ready to hear, and it really knocked me off-kilter. It was an early version of Self Evident. Looking back, she was right. That's unconditional love and real courage, when it really comes down to it: telling the truth when people who generally agree with you don't even want to hear it.
I....♥♥.....♥♥
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Every word
word.
goosebumps everytime i hear it.
And I'm not even American.
If you like Ani DiFranco, you'll LOVE Abigail Kiser. She's a new young artist from Chantilly, Virginia, who's just been signed to my indie label, New Indie Artists. She writes her own music and poems, plays guitar, and sings. She's an 18 year old beatnik queen, and you'll love her stuff.
To listen to her music and poems, go here:
http://www.newindieartists.com/content/view/14/28/
To read about her in our blog, go here:
http://newindieartists.typepad.com/weblog/
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