10 hours ago
Because
When Mr. Hooper left for good, Big Bird
couldn't take it: he said He’s never coming back?
and then, neither could I. I cried so loud
my mother thought someone had done me wrong.
I liked Sesame Street because the world was just 4 people
and all 4 of them were nice as hell
and 2 of them were black. They didn't sugarcoat it either,
gave it to us straight. Susan took one look at Gordon,
and he stood up like a man
about to cut his daughter down
from a poplar tree. Nobody was smiling, you could tell
it was for real. It fell to him to help the children
old enough to understand accept the truth:
good people, the people we love, die.
I didn't want to get it. I’d seen enough to know
you never really get it back. Big Bird hangs his sadness
from a wire in the sky, I hear his voice break
as he asks Why, Gordon?
Gordon says,
Because.
When Mr. Hooper left for good, Big Bird
couldn't take it: he said He’s never coming back?
and then, neither could I. I cried so loud
my mother thought someone had done me wrong.
I liked Sesame Street because the world was just 4 people
and all 4 of them were nice as hell
and 2 of them were black. They didn't sugarcoat it either,
gave it to us straight. Susan took one look at Gordon,
and he stood up like a man
about to cut his daughter down
from a poplar tree. Nobody was smiling, you could tell
it was for real. It fell to him to help the children
old enough to understand accept the truth:
good people, the people we love, die.
I didn't want to get it. I’d seen enough to know
you never really get it back. Big Bird hangs his sadness
from a wire in the sky, I hear his voice break
as he asks Why, Gordon?
Gordon says,
Because.