#Americans #Blacks
Let’s go see Old Abe Sitting in the marble and the moon… Sitting lonely in the marble and t… Quiet for ten thousand centuries,… Quiet for a million, million years…
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.
Listen! Dear dream of utter aliveness— Touching my body of utter death— Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliv… The flaming source of your bright…
I worked for a woman, She wasn’t mean— But she had a twelve—room House to clean. Had to get breakfast,
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
When the old junk man Death Comes to gather up our bodies And toss them into the sack of obl… I wonder if he will find The corpse of a white multi—millio…
I play it cool I dig all jive. That's the reason I stay alive. My motto
Oh, silver tree! Oh, shining rivers of the soul! In a Harlem cabaret Six long—headed jazzers play. A dancing girl whose eyes are bold
In an envelope marked: PERSONAL God addressed me a letter. In an envelope marked: PERSONAL
In the Quarter of the Negroes Where the doors are doors of paper Dust of dingy atoms Blows a scratchy sound. Amorphous jack—o’—Lanterns caper
Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal… It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,
I’m all alone in this world, she s… Ain’t got nobody to share my bed, Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand— The truth of the matter’s I ain’t got no man.
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
He glides so swiftly Back into the grass— Gives me the courtesy of road To let me pass, That I am half ashamed
Being walkers with the dawn and mo… Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness—
