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Fashion this, from the Irony of the world.

Publisher African American Review
Publication African American Review
Subject Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 1062-4783
Issues per Year 4
Volume 37
Issue 2-3
Published 2003-06-22

Role Type Name
Author n/a Amiri Baraka
Fashion this, from the Iroy
Of the world

   That I, the undaunted Laureate of the place, daunted in some
   Un as yet/ed pre tense of what they see, they be
   As if, such where they was
   Was yet to be, and then to say
   They is, and is not, like revelations, wow!
   Humans. The skin, the lodging inside dumbness a slight breeze frees
   they speech
   To speak as if acquainted with small things in the world. Eating,
   Belching, Farting, Murder, Robbery.
   And so. As if, and them too they is. But nothing further
   But the wee dots on the deletion resembling the minds of them...

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