But the verb I want is one that gives complete freedom and complete parity to my private and public self. So then there is some relation between how I am perceived, in terms of color, height, dress, and how I am, the private me. To that I would answer, no, because the questioner probably doesn't know about the public offenses commited against me and those who look like me, and the capacity of whites to make people forget those offenses or make them afraid to remember those offenses. . . . And the things you are forced to believe, like everyone can't be a bastard, so you must believe there was someone who wasn't. It's beginning to look like that.
Music tells a lot about verbs.
In music every note is a verb. In the beat poems, every word is a verb, because every verb will be structured to test your capacity as a reader for action or response. That's not too clear. O.K., I'll clear that up. In that kind of a poem, there will be sounds that occur in your mind.