the poet, spoken or performance of our rights activist jayne cortez has died at the age of 76.she published numerous books of poetry and put out several records of her words set to music. here she is performing one of her best known poems, "i am nyc. >>i am new york city here is my brain of hot sauce my tobacco teeth my mattress of bedbug tongue legs apart hand on chin war on the roof insults pointed fingerspushcarts my contraceptives all look at my pelvis blushing i am new york city of blood police and fried pies i rub my docks red with grenadine and jelly madness in a flow of tokay my huge skull of pigeons my seance of peeping toms my plaited ovaries excuse me this is my grime my thigh of steelspoons and toothpicks i imitate no one 01/03/13 01/03/13 >> jayne cortez that on december 28. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin in india where six men had been formally charged with the