-15 04.02

Saul Williams releases "Survivalism_OpalHeartClinic_NiggyTardust_(ESCAPED..." on his Myspace, as well as a new poem that may or may not be connected. He sends out a MySpace bulletin to his friends:

Date: Apr 2, 2007 3:34 AM
Subject Resistance Agitator, NiggyTardust Escaped!
Body: "Any way u look at it

i’m ro ck n roll.

words

define and become me.

Am that I am

bastion of chaos
withered defeated
hallmarked by glory

came and I rolled.



Tell them my story.

kick it an d fold it

try hard to hold it

It won’t go untold.



Things r

just


as they should be.

u, there.


me,

Loud and defiant.

n th eyes of ur childrn

this is every thing.


Won’t go unnoticed.

We want attention!

U!~

Ur time is up!!

Dance through the mayhem

Kill them or pay them!




Quick!


Change the station.


Now, turn it up!


I will avenge the wrath

of my path with u

if u promise

to kiss me back.


Want u to hold me

tighter

than THEY hold me.

Want u to give me


now give me back.



Now, what do u make of that?"


NiggyTardust ‘7

(Survivalism_OpalHeartClinicMix_NiggyTardust!(escaped….))



{.....i had to stop meditating and eat meat without ritual in order to embody the distress that signals what has become communal recognition. Mirror in the spotlight! I choose to stand now. capitalIzed. cash in on n. outer-body experience. space invader. saturnite. NiggyTardust survived. beckoned by last poets "aunt jemima serving richard nixon honey coated black egos for breakfast". here's whats for dinner: music. like a fly, eat what ur ancestors have already regurgitated. polyrhythm. gun-powder tea. son, i'm used to this. grew up, where things don't grow, except by abstinence. made word a sport. rode bike through graveyard. spun on head. check my footwork. poppin. x-stacey. Niggy Pop! Niggy Pop-lock and freeze! 3+5=8. Infinite. Kingdom Come is Dead. Spit. Ancestor worship. History becomes. There is an afterlife...somewhere beneath the underdog.....}

Thavius Beck, in turn, releases "Survivalism (Tardusted)" on his MySpace.