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Article: The lyrics of despair. (poem)
- Article from:
- African American Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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You stand in white light. The rhinestones dripping like a million tears from your dress. A lavender gardenia in your jetblack hair. Your eyes like so many wet grapes. You open the red gash in your face to bleed . . . the lyrics of your despair because you know where its mother fives. & you conjure up the voodoo it takes to perform a song that knows no other color but blue. You stand like an antenna in the wind with a cool breeze singing in your veins. Your mind's cinema remembering strange fruit. All the long bus rides . . . the sly indignities. The bold-faced abuses a commonplace in F.D.R.'s & Truman's & Ike's America. & you've known that stinging taste of bitterness. The ...
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