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Intellectual Architects

Voltaire just Kant angle cut it Beauvoir broad side view abut the narrow Rousseau gender Thoreau thought causeway As Sarte Marx the entrance unlit — Avicena chapiters atop da Vinci pillars, Stuart Mill sturdily sit Arendt spiral steps turn Spinoza down to the Alighieri depths Socrates ambience got a Dewey dungeon decimal Fodio gradient affectation Awolowo still wanna Sodipo cubit cut it, but some Augustinus genius won’t even Nyerere beveling make the reed Descartes arch decision Wollstonecraft overlaid on contoured Witt Piper leveled with Gargi precision ... A Solomon blueprint found in a keen closet

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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton

Date: 8/9/2018 11:53:00 PM

Gone AWOL James Baldwin? Brilliant writer, reading him lately...and born on my birthday too. Stellar. Strong. A warrior for his generation and those to come. I like everything about this poem, but this the best, "A Solomon blueprint found in a keen closet".

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 8/9/2018 11:55:00 PM

...and this, "Arendt spiral steps turn Spinoza down to the Alighieri depths..."

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 8/9/2018 11:53:00 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2itPoyM894

Sand Blown

Date: 8/9/2018 10:12:00 PM

so nice to hear from you : )