1. 30 June 2009 ยท 06:56 PM

    Wordplay par excellence

    My fave play on convention this week comes courtesy of Mos Def.

    In “Pistola,” One of the songs on his new album, he asks:

    “If you’re gonna fall in love, where should you stand to begin with?”

    It goes on:

    “And when the fall is done, how bad should you plan to get injured?

    And if you land on your feet, do it count as a fall or a jump?

    And do it feel like a fall when the hands that pushed you were holding you up?”

    I wish everyone knew language was so elastic.

    1. jillyc posted this