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Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On Modern Poetry

Poema pictura loquens, pictura poema silens

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Richard L. Johnson
Feb 05, 2022
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. - Jay-Z, Decoded

Hip hop is an integral part of many peoples lives from an early age to their death. One of my first memories as a child is walking by my older brothers room while the “Nuthin but a G thang” video by Dr. Dre was playing. I cold …

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