Al Young Poems

She talks too loud, her face
a blur of wrinkles & sunshine
where her hard hair shivers
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First light of day in Mississippi
son of laborer & of house wife
it says so on the official photostat
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Green is the color of everything
that isn't brown, the tones ranging
like mountains, the colors changing.
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"Now I'll tell you about the
Blues. All Negroes like Blues.
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