Mbira Klein is a student of painting at School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He is also a musician and poet of many facets, singing, rapping, playing the guitar and trumpet and mixing all his own stuff. He was commissioned by Yes is a World to write the title poem for Kiss the Speaker Wire: Songs of Protest, a performance which took place on 15 August 2003 in Chicago:

stale tongues taste salt and say, "Could use some
flavor." Dim sights catch sunlight and still use dark
behavior. Saviors out of prisoners have never been.
Kiss your mother goodnight, lover goodbye trouble
good riddance, and whats covered within kiss, speak,
or why not sing your piece till peace is found. Down
getters set your center to balanced or bent but
benevolent to some measure, better your sentiments.
The point's not not to fear, but embrace what's left
to stare back at us in mirrors. The next step is
seldom clear and merely taken. Is the speaker tool of
aid to those who cannot sing loud enough? Loud enough,
or weapon of the fake prophets shouting for their own.
Could be both. Kiss if you don't really know, the wire
needs the catalyst of love to make them really glow.
Really glow burning on the freedom pyre... Kiss the
speaker wire.