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Contflictsand Complications
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Park Avenue at eight
Is not so bad,
Solutions to the Problem,
Of course, wait.
Langston Hughes
Dreaming Black Boy
I wish my teacher's eyes wouldn't
go past me today. Wish he'd know
it's okay to hug me when I kick
a goal. Wish I myself wouldn't
hold back when an answer comes,
I'm no woodchopper now
like all ancestors.
I wish I could be educated
to the best of tune up, and earn
good money and not sink to lick
boots. I wish I could go on every
crisscross way of the globe
and no persons or powers or
hotel keepers would make it a waste.
I wish life wouldn't spend me out
opposing, Wish same way creation
would have me stand it would have
me stretch, and hold high, my voice
Paul Robeson’, my inside eye
a sun. Nobody wants to say
hello to nasty answers.
I wish torch throwers of night
would burn lights for decent times,
Wish plotters in pyjamas would pray 25
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Race and Gender
for themselves. Wish people wouldn't
talk as if I dropped from Mars,
I wish only boys were scared
behind bravados, for I could suffer.
I could suffer a big big lot.
I wish nobody would want to earn
the terrible burden I can suffer.
James Berry
Caribbean History
A flower falls on a leaf,
the forest sleeps, and
waves are on holiday.
El Dorado sings of love
as Columbus listens
ina plastic boat.
Guacanagari flies to New York,
~ Nobody needs the Sargasso.
Juliet watches soap operas,
and wonders where
real heroes are gone.
Magdalene stops by a store
named, ‘Apostles’ Feet’
— What are winged sandals for?
Exploring city slums
ina purple limousine
Cleopatra examines
all painted doors.
Other VIPs visit
St. Elsewhere-in-the-Sun_
for rum and water skis.
There is no oracle,
only fraudulent cinemas.
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