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To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

You have to be telling people essentially "I love you," or you have no basis for your art.

Black Poets should live
not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.