"CELEBRATE YOUR LIFE!"

Woodstock 94-"The Bottle"-"Everybody needs something"
Paris"Is That Jazz?""Don't Give Up!"
Selective attention means we may never hear "Angel Dust"
of "The Spirits"-only his BIG HIT"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!"
I blame TV for this vacuousness/emptiness-GSH 's spirit was best encapsulated
in his mantra oft repeated @Woodstock 94-"CELEBRATE YOUR LIFE!"
In an age of LPs and singles,when urban black music poetry was rare
The Last Poets carved public attention long before rap
I was in New York when his 90s revival had him alive and well
lost a friend who went to his show rather than ours
Long ago,had heard his words from afar
and loved them more as a signal of truth and power
a jazz infusion of electric shock lyrics
to awaken all to connection.He is gone
Gill-Scott Heron 's poems live strong
Truth has a way of defeating time
via music,via rhyme...