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Thu, 24.09.2009

FOUR SHEETS TO THE WIND AND A ONE-WAY TICKET TO FRANCE, 1993 by Conrad Kent Rivers.

As a Black Child I was a dreamer
I brought a red scarf and women told me how
Beautiful it looked.

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Thu, 24.09.2009

WATTS by Conrad Kent Rivers.

white man dead
to free the nigger
in his head???
Reprinted by permission of Cora Rivers.

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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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