From Hollywood Forever:
The New Mythology Begins to Love me
With an immediacy that seems at once artless and profoundly sophisticated. You know how Billie Holiday sounds vague and precise like an unmarked grave that might your father's but he had another name for his disappearance, he called it love eventfully shattered with enough of it
I heard black people don't get depressed, besides as luxury, and the bible says. What's popular now is the way the miracle of pure style cures or is it curses, crosses our heart, hopes to hide of what it don't get while new angels sing hexes into bottles of northern comfort. Uproar. Jesus, already these myths are obsolete too and fresh the cold details he was bleeding his twisted love into.
Hollywood Forever
Holiday collides poems-as-text and image-as-impression, lyricism and the tones you hear as your mind expands. The “legacies” of Miles Davis and MLK and Billie Holiday collide as well, harnessing taboos they upheld just as triumphantly. The coalescing of layers of a story in restricted space produces ghettos, or a mythological advertising omniverse wherein shadow and light integrate, complicating our fantasies. PURCHASE: https://www.hpb.com/products/hollywood-forever-9780986437304
