Appendix A

'The Shrews are Drunk in Love'

“Drunk in Love"
 Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z

[Intro: Beyoncé]
1. I've been drinking, I've been drinking
2. I get filthy when that liquor get into me
3. I've been thinking, I've been thinking
4. Why can't I keep my fingers off it, baby?
6. I want you, na na

7. Why can't I keep my fingers off it, baby?
8. I want you, na na

[Verse 1: Beyoncé]
9. Cigars on ice, cigars on ice
10. Feeling like an animal with these cameras all in my grill
11. Flashing lights, flashing lights
12. You got me faded, faded, faded
13. Baby, I want you, na na
14. Can't keep your eyes off my fatty
15. Daddy, I want you, na na
16. Drunk in love, I want you

[Hook: Beyoncé]
17. We woke up in the kitchen saying,
18. "How the hell did this shit happen?"
19. Oh baby, drunk in love we be all night
20. Last thing I remember is our beautiful bodies grinding up in the club
21. Drunk in love

[Bridge: Beyoncé]
22. We be all night, love, love
23. We be all night, love, love

[Verse 2: Beyoncé]
24. We be all night,
25. And everything alright
26. No complaints from my body, so fluorescent under these lights
27. Boy, I'm drinking,
28. Park it in my lot 7-11
29. I'm rubbing on it, rub-rubbing, if you scared, call that reverend
30. Boy, I'm drinking, get my brain right
31. Armand de brignac, gangster wife
32. Louie sheets, he sweat it out like wash rags he wear it out
33. [Studio version:] Boy, I'm drinking, I'm singing on the mic to my boy toys
34. [Video/Live version:] Boy, I'm drinking, I'm singing on the mic til my voice hoarse
35. Then I fill the tub up halfway then ride it with my surfboard, surfboard, surfboard
36. Graining on that wood, graining, graining on that wood
37. I'm swerving on that, swerving, swerving on that big body
38. Been serving all this, swerve, surfing all in this good, good

[Hook]

[Bridge]

[Verse 3: Jay-Z]
39. (I'm nice right now)
40. Hold up
41. That D'USSÉ is the shit if I do say so myself
42. If I do say so myself, if I do say so myself
43. Hold up,
44. Stumbled all in the house time to back up all of that mouth
45. That you had all in the car, talking 'bout you the baddest bitch thus far
46. Talking 'bout you be repping that third, I wanna see all the shit that I heard
47. Know I sling Clint Eastwood, hope you can handle this curve
48. Foreplay in the foyer, fucked up my Warhol
49. Slip the panties right to the side
50. Ain't got the time to take draws off, on site
51. Catch a charge I might, beat the box up like Mike
52. In '97 I bite, I'm Ike, Turner, turn up
53. Baby no I don't play, now eat the cake, Anna Mae
54. Said, "Eat the cake, Anna Mae!"
55. I'm nice, for y'all to reach these heights you gonna need G3
56. 4, 5, 6 flights, sleep tight
57. We sex again in the morning, your breastases is my breakfast
58. We going in, we be all night

[Bridge]

[Verse 4: Beyoncé]
59. Never tired, never tired
60. I been sipping, that's the only thing that's keeping me on fire, me on fire
61. Didn't mean to spill that liquor all on my attire
62. I've been drinking watermelon
63. I want your body right here, daddy I want you, right now
64. Can't keep your eyes off my fatty
65. Daddy I want you

[Bridge] 

Drunk in Love (video)

Song writers: Shawn C. Carter, Rasool Ricardo Diaz, Noel C. Fisher, Jerome Harmon, Beyonce Gisselle Knowles, Timothy Z. Mosley, Andre Eric Proctor, Brian Soko

Publisher: Sony

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#WalkingToTheCornerStoreOnTheWayHomeToBuyCandyForWatchingMoviesAfterSchool  

by 

Z. Hall 

Tendons, muscles, cartilage and bone

On these I depend to get me home
Alive

Poet: Z. Hall
Image with permission by: Patrick Campbell
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'Let the Fire Burn'--Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

Watch The Philosophy of MOVE on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.

"Let the Fire Burn" had one of the shortest runs of any of the Independent Lens documentaries that I have watched on Kansas City's local PBS station, KCPT. 

The film sheds light on the May 13, 1985 destruction of 61 homes (let me say that again--61 homes) that resulted in the tragic deaths of 11 people, including five children! It was discovered that authorities decided to “…let the fire burn” after Philadelphia police dropped military-grade explosives onto the MOVE-occupied rowhouse in that neighborhood.   

Coverage of the hearings following the massacre are equally tragic and telling of the pure, unadulterated racial hatred that fostered the killings--bone chilling, even for those for whom this film is a mirror up to their own, though perhaps private, animosities.  

I called the station to find out why the film was aired only a couple of times in its first month of showing, and why the film could not be accessed on KCPT's website even though the link to the film says "view full episode."  

Well, that was yesterday. Today, the link has been removed altogether. 

Yesterday, the head of KCPT's online content (I don't recall her exact title) told me that the film did not load because "they probably didn't have rights to either the film or parts of the film."   

What?!   

Who is "they" and how could KCPT possibly air the film in the first place if the proper rights had not been secured by "those people" before airing it?   

If you were unable to catch "Let the Fire Burn" while it was on *public television*, it is now accessible behind the gate of Netflix. SMDH   

But, never fear, you can still watch the Jayson Blair story on KCPT. In that film, racial stereotypes (both white and black) are maintained and perpetuated.   

Repeating specific stories influences public perception in a specific direction. Limiting access limits knowledge and understanding.   

Though I enjoy much of the programing on public television, and KCPT in particular, I will not bite my tongue regarding their participation in the perpetuation of racial stereotypes and pubic ignorance to appease particular audiences.  

There, I said it. 

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Resurrection

Resurrection

by

Z. Hall

Water falls in drops
turning on bulbs
in Spring

Rollin’ off rooftops
give drink to thirsty shrubs
they sing

Plunging down spouts
the tulip tiger cub

rises from Winter’s grave as king

Image credit: Unknown

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[Book Review] The Beautiful Music All Around Us by Stephen Wade

Cover art: University of Illinois Press

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