My Father Likes Listening to Old Music
written by: Mayen Kuol Mayen
my father likes listening to old music
music older than his old self by a stretch
music his father danced to in his youth
music his father’s father sang
in the festivities of his days.
he tells me to listen to old music, too:
music older than I am by a stretch
music he danced to in his youth
music his father sang
in the festivities of his days.
“why should I,” once I asked, “& not listen
to the music of my peers as my peers do?”
“the wisdom a man needs for his time
can only be mined in the minds of men
before his time,” he replied.
Mayen Kuol Mayen is a self-taught poet from South Sudan. He believes each one of us has his/her story that they must tell even if no one is listening.
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