Quincy Troupe Quote

up from new Orleans, on riverboats
from the gulf of mexico, memory carries
sweet legacy of niggerland speech, brown tongue bluesing
muddy water
underbottomed spirits crawling, nightmares
of shipwrecked bones, bones gone home to stone, to stone
bones gone home to stone, to stone
riverbottomed, underbellied spirits

Skulls Along the River (1984)