this right here [plus everything else you nailed so keenly and magnanimously].

haters gonna hate seems too simple an explanation for how this triggered the poetry-elites so your thoughtful take as an actual poet was balm and coarse.

i'm more than happy to shove 'their' racism up my own ass if that would make 'it and them' go-the-fuck-away, if for a moment but preferably forever.

i'm happy to report i thought of you, my medium-friend i've never met but appreciate for waking me up to poetry that speaks to me and this modern life, as i watched and listened, transfixed... as a skinny black girl with the presence of a priestess brought me to tears of joy, hope, and gratitude [again] for our younger generation and the future of our earthling-collective.

bravo, jay and thank you for the links, specifically the transcript. i plan to study and learn from it and leave any parsing, nit-picking, and Envy [as there's likely a 'soupçcon of that lurking within their very small chambers, too, dontcha think?]... to lower-minds.

:-) brava, ms. gorman. bravo, mr. sizemore.