"The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”"

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Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which you are addressing - and at the moment when the complications arise, challenging the logic of what you're doing.

— Michael Eric Dyson