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Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.
Black Poets should live
not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
I boil my tears in a twisted spoon
And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
You have to be telling people essentially "I love you," or you have no basis for your art.
