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She lay skin down in the moist dirt	A
the canebrake rustling	B
with the whispers of leaves and	C
loud longing of hounds and	C
the ransack of hunters crackling the near	D
branches	E
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She muttered lifting her head a nod toward	F
freedom	G
I shall not I shall not be moved	H
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She gathered her babies	I
their tears slick as oil on black faces	E
their young eyes canvassing mornings of madness	J
Momma is Master going to sell you	K
from us tomorrow	L
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Yes	M
Unless you keep walking more	N
and talking less	M
Yes	M
Unless the keeper of our lives	O
releases me from all commandments	P
Yes	M
And your lives	O
never mine to live	Q
will be executed upon the killing floor of	R
innocents	P
Unless you match my heart and words	S
saying with me	T
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I shall not be moved	H
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In Virginia tobacco fields	U
leaning into the curve	V
of Steinway	W
pianos along Arkansas roads	X
in the red hills of Georgia	Y
into the palms of her chained hands she	T
cried against calamity	T
You have tried to destroy me	T
and though I perish daily	T
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I shall not be moved	H
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Her universe often	Z
summarized into one black body	T
falling finally from the tree to her feet	A2
made her cry each time into a new voice	B2
All my past hastens to defeat	A2
and strangers claim the glory of my love	R
Iniquity has bound me to his bed	C2
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yet I must not be moved	H
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She heard the names	D2
swirling ribbons in the wind of history	T
nigger nigger bitch heifer	E2
mammy property creature ape baboon	F2
whore hot tail thing it	G2
She said But my description cannot	H2
fit your tongue for	N
I have a certain way of being in this world	I2
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and I shall not I shall not be moved	H
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No angel stretched protecting wings	J2
above the heads of her children	Z
fluttering and urging the winds of reason	Z
into the confusions of their lives	O
The sprouted like young weeds	K2
but she could not shield their growth	L2
from the grinding blades of ignorance nor	N
shape them into symbolic topiaries	K2
She sent them away	W
underground overland in coaches and	C
shoeless	K2
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When you learn teach	M2
When you get give	N2
As for me	T
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I shall not be moved	H
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She stood in midocean seeking dry land	O2
She searched God's face	K2
Assured	P2
she placed her fire of service	K2
on the altar and though	L
clothed in the finery of faith	Q2
when she appeared at the temple door	N
no sign welcomed	R2
Black Grandmother Enter here	S2
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Into the crashing sound	T2
into wickedness she cried	U2
No one no nor no one million	Z
ones dare deny me God I go forth	V2
along and stand as ten thousand	C
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The Divine upon my right	W2
impels me to pull forever	E2
at the latch on Freedom's gate	X2
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my	Y2
feet without ceasing into the camp of the	Y
righteous and into the tents of the free	T
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These momma faces lemon yellow plum purple	Z2
honey brown have grimaced and twisted	A3
down a pyramid for years	K2
She is Sheba the Sojourner	E2
Harriet and Zora	Y
Mary Bethune and Angela	Y
Annie to Zenobia	Y
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She stands	K2
before the abortion clinic	B3
confounded by the lack of choices	K2
In the Welfare line	C3
reduced to the pity of handouts	K2
Ordained in the pulpit shielded	D3
by the mysteries	K2
In the operating room	E3
husbanding life	F3
In the choir loft	G3
holding God in her throat	H3
On lonely street corners	K2
hawking her body	T
In the classroom loving the	Y
children to understanding	B
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Centered on the world's stage	I3
she sings to her loves and beloveds	K2
to her foes and detractors	K2
However I am perceived and deceived	J3
however my ignorance and conceits	K2
lay aside your fears that I will be undone	Z
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for I shall not be moved	H

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