Amiri Baraka Shadow 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.
    Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?
    (Only jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.
    The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate Smith,
    Or something equally unattractive.)
    ...
Total 3 Shadow Poems by Amiri Baraka

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