boys
I don’t promise you nothing
but this
what you pawn
I will redeem
what you steal
I wil conceal
my private silence to
your public guilt
is all I got
girls
first time a white man
opens his fly
like a good thing
we’ll just laugh
laugh real loud my
black women
children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don’t have no sense…
From Good Times Copyright 1969 by Lucille Clifton.
Reference:
Lucille Clifton
Category: Celebration of Blackness,
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