Hey You Sekou!


hey all you riff rappers

            you zip zappers

                        yappers, tappers

even you mad mad cappers


shouting words shot from the hip
ster’s engaging eyes that blinked 
to the beat of the beat
generation, copped the beat city 
streets that African drum beats beat 

hey all you be-boppers
          hip hoppers
                   show stoppers
even you long-haired rockers

Indian cab driver hails him
hey tip tap top!
thunder clapped
the day he dropped – 
death
     sure is
          a hard 
               hard 
bop

                                                                                    (w/ Steve Zeitlin)