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Three Chores, One Country Day 2
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turned to leave the stage,
but stage itself seemed turning,
follow-moving, circling me,
enfolding me upfront--though I felt leaving down the aisle
not looking back--until some curtain roase
and audience was new, was Black,
was waiting.
Must be some trick my Trans-s-lator knew:
pushed in that chromobutton “Black”
and only heard the beating of my heart;
kept pushing it till floor rose up on sounds
like hoofbeats on the grass,
booBOOF- booBOOF- booBOOF-, and faster,
till breath around was tight as if
the climax of some play was on
and I was sitting in the crowd--
booBOOF- booBOOF- booBOOF- as all in the air
[*A listener at City College admired this breathing technique.*]
The brother next to me turned like a page
close to my eyes;
“ThaCHU he was talking bout?” he said.
He meant the short Black man upfront
who meant the poem I mean to write
as I said “Yes”
up-coming from The Veil…
[*Du Bois’s well-known “veil” idea in The Souls of Black Folk.*]
A neat, pale hand extended blocked my path](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/2/c/6/2c68041e-447e-42fd-b316-65c9c437d5ce/attachment/0e236a4541d4b0bd23f9369e08dc3493.jpg)
After the Poetry Reading, Black (with annotations) 4
To the Negro Children of Mount Vernon (On the Occasion of My School Board Candidacy)
WHITE-BELLY JUSTICE 1
Left Umbrellas 2
Poet as Fisherman 1
Three Chores, One Country Day 1
El Toro (with annotations) 2
To Kill a Morning Spider