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| "I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" |
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| "There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!" |
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| "Man, remember, until an hour before the devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven." |
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“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much” |
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Steps, Lana Turner, The Day Lady Died
New York, casual language |
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"At the poem society a black haired man stands up...."
Dryness of academia poetry, cynical |
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"As the adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat--" |
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"Black Crispus Attucks taught us how to die
Before white Patrick Henry's bugle breath"
"None in the land can say To us black men Today:" |
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"Taped to the wall of my cell are 47 pictures..."
"Each fall the graves of my grandfathers call me, the brown hills and red gullies of mississippi send out the electic messages" |
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"And then last night, I tiptoed up
To my daughter's room and heard her
Talking to someone, and when I opened
The door, there was no one there..." |
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"Poems are bullshit unless they are
teeth or trees or lemons piled
on a stop. Or black ladies dying"
"We want..." poems, violence, anger, "rrrrrrr" |
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"Calling black people
Calling all black people, man woman child
Whever you are, calling you" |
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| He peers inside it, feels about inside it, turns it upside down, shakes it, looks on the ground to see if anything has fallen out, finds nothing, feels inside it again, |
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| Waiting for Godot--Samuel Beckett |
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With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew |
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not
Any less the black man who
Bit my pretty red heart in two |
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With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers.
I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me. |
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"I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night"
"I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by" |
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"the grass is bristly and stout as chives,
and me wondering when the ground would break,
and me wondering how anything fragile survives"
"somebody who should have been born is gone" |
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"My only thought is how to keep alive.
What makes him tick? Each night now I tie
ten dollars and his car key to my thigh" |
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"We've lost our summer millionaire,
who seemed to leap from an LL Bean
catalogue"
"One dark knight,
my tudor ford climbed the hill's skull,
I watched for love-cars. Lights turn down" |
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"The baby is scrubbed everywhere, he is an apple. They are true kitchen stalwarts."
"She is lying on her stomach with one eye closed, driving a toy truck long the road" |
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"She had some horses
She had horses who were bodies of sand.
She had horses who were maps drawn of blood." |
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