“Teachers and pop icons, empty drums beat loudest noise. We swap their quotes and CDs like children trading toys. Follow along, bite the barbed hook deep in our jaw…”

— Dawud Wharnsby

"The War/La Ilaha Il Allah"
Out Seeing The Fields (2007)

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