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Usta be young usta be gifted — still black.
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Oh, Mama, when I lose you I'll lose my only true witness!
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You suffer calculated amnesia, you
forget those who remind you of what you really are.
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Its music comes out the radio
drives beside me in my car. strolls along with me
down supermarket aisles
it's on television
and in the streets even when my walk is casual/undefined
it's overhead flashing lights
i find it in my mouth
when i would speak of other things.
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
George Saintsbury
Wanda Coleman
Born:
November 13, 1946
Died:
November 22, 2013
(aged 67)
Bio:
Wanda Coleman was an American poet. She was known as "the L.A. Blueswoman" and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles".
Known for:
Bathwater wine (1998)
Mercurochrome (2001)
African Sleeping Sickness: Stories & Poems (1990)
Native in a strange land (1996)
Ostinato vamps (2003)
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