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This is a poem.

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I stopped reading this
poem because it's outdated,

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but I think I'll read it again.

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This is about the
fight before last.

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Do you know what I mean?

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This is about the
fight in Zaire.

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And I very much wanted to
write a poem about that,

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and I wanted to play
with words a little bit.

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I wanted to play
with the word rain,

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R-A-I-N because there was,
is a drought in that country.

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And I wanted to play with
the word reign, R-E-I-G-N,

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which means a king
ruling over his people.

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So I did.

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The poem starts with a poem by
a man named Drew Bundini Brown.

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Do you know who?

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Good because so many people
don't know who that is,

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it's unbelievable.

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Drew Bundini Brown
was in the movie

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Shaft, a movie I didn't see by
the way but I know he's there.

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And he's in Muhammad
Ali's Corner.

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And he wrote a poem
and it goes like this,

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float like a butterfly, sting
like a bee, rumble young man,

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rumble.

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And the young man rumbled.

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Rained on the just
and the unjust,

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and it was the rainy
season in Zaire.

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And the young man poured
down, poured down.

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And where there had been
drought on the continent,

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the young man wept the tongues
of brothers and sisters

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who drummed and drummed for the
rumbling young men for who can

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stay dry when black rain comes?

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