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Category Poets

Uncle Tom [2]

Within—The beaten pride.Without—The grinning face,The low, obsequious,Double bow,The sly and servile graceOf one the white folksLong agoTaught wellTo know hisPlace.

To Artina

I will take your heart.I will take your soul out of your bodyAs though I were God.I will not be satisfiedWith the little words you say to me.I will not be satisfiedWith the touch of your handNor the sweet of…

Blue Monday

No use in my going Downtown to work today, It’s eight, I’m late—And it’s marked down that-a-way.Saturday and Sunday’s Fun to sport around. But no use denying—Monday’ll get you down.That old blue Monday Will surely get you down.

As Befits a Man

I don’t mind dying—But I’d hate to die all alone! I want a dozen pretty women To holler, cry, and moan.I don’t mind dyingBut I want my funeral to be fine: A row of long tall mamas Fainting, fanning, and…

Tambourines

Tambourines!Tambourines!TambourinesTo the glory of God!TambourinesTo glory! A gospel shoutAnd a gospel song:Life is shortBut God is long! Tambourines!Tambourines!TambourinesTo glory!

Angola Question Mark

Don’t know why I,Black,Must still standWith my backTo the last frontierOf fearIn my own land. Don’t know why IMust turn intoA Mau MauAnd lift my handAgainst my fellow manTo live on my own land. But it is so—And being soI…

Not Else—But

Hip bootsDeep in the blues(And I never had a hip boot on).HairBlowing back in the wind(And I never had that much hair).Diamonds in pawn(And I never had a diamondIn my natural life).MeIn the White House(And ain’t never had a black…

Little Cats

What happens to little cats? Some get drowned in a well, Some run over by a car—But none goes to hell. What happens to little cats, New born, not been here long? Some live out theirFull nine lives—As mean as…

Pastoral

Between the little clouds of heavenThey thought they sawThe Saviour peeping through.For little tears of heavenThey mistook the gentle dew,And believed the tiny flowersThat grew upon the plainTo be souvenirs of Jesus,The Child, come back again.