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Thu, 24.09.2009

SURVIVAL MOTION: NOTICE by Melvin E. Brown.

We gotta
put more in our
children’s heads
than gold teeth,
to
keep blackness
to
keep blackness
to
always keep it
from turning around.

america’s
got all kinds of
attractive distractive
colorful
freak image
clown clothed
hypnotic animal
music games and rides.

and you
can lose a child
at a circus,
very
easy…..

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New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

This poem re-stages a tracing match (quarrel) between two Jamaican women. Common cuss-words like "boogooyagga" (low-grade) "heng-pon-nail " (bedraggled) are used. Gwan gal yuh fava teggereg, Ah wey yuh gwine goh... CUSS – CUSS by Louise Bennett.
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