Amiri Baraka Destroy Poems

  • 1.
    WHYS (Nobody Knows
    The Trouble I Seen)
    Traditional

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  • 2.
    'A closed window looks down
    on a dirty courtyard, and Black people
    call across or scream across or walk across
    defying physics in the stream of their will.
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  • 3.
    She stands beside me, stands away,
    the vague indifference
    of her dreams. Dreaming, to go on,
    and go on there, like animals fleeing
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Total 3 Destroy Poems by Amiri Baraka

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