Amiri Baraka Light Poems

  • 1.
    I am inside someone
    who hates me. I look
    out from his eyes. Smell
    what fouled tunes come in
    ...
  • 2.
    He came back and shot. He shot him. When he came
    back, he shot, and he fell, stumbling, past the
    shadow wood, down, shot, dying, dead, to full halt.

    ...
  • 3.
    African blues
    does not know me. Their steps, in sands
    of their own
    land. A country
    ...
Total 3 Light Poems by Amiri Baraka

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