Archie Shepp
Fire Music

Malcolm, Malcolm semper Malcolm.

Malcolm X had just died and Malcolm X will live again and again with his rebellious and bitter cry.

This restless and angry march ignites, burning in the veins swallowing every pain.

A burning revolt comes forward for breaths — and disorder and broken chains and sweat and advance of strangled phrases — to give voice to those whose passion has been subdued by too many abuses.

In the parched land and in the bitterness of a cacophony, a new world now flickers.