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Thu, 24.09.2009

CHOOSING THE BLUES (for S. Brandi Barnes) by Angela Jackson.

When Willie Mae went down to the barber shop to visit her boyfriend who cut hair there I went with her.
Walking beside her on the street the men said hey and stopped to watch her just walk.
Boyfriend barber cut hair and cut his glance at her, O, he could see the tree for the forest.
He pressed down the wild crest on a man’s head and shaved it off just so he could watch her standing there by the juke box choosing the blues she would wear for the afternoon.
Right there Little Milton would shoot through the store-front with the peppermint stick sentry twirling outside
“If I didn’t love you,

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