Ishmael Reed Poems

'The devil must be forced to reveal any such physical evil
(potions, charms, fetishes, etc.) still outside the body
and these must be burned.' (Rituale Romanum, published
1947, endorsed by the coat-of-arms and introductory
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tonite, thriller was
about an old woman, so vain she
surrounded herself with
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put yr cup on my tray
the stewardess said 40,000
feet up. (well i've
never done it that way. what
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35? I have been looking forward
To you for many years now
So much so that
I feel you and I are old
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Some say that Chattanooga is the
Old name for Lookout Mountain
To others it is an uncouth name
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The grocery had provided him with
boxes of rotten lettuce
He was loading them onto a
yellow pick-up truck
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Well it's six o'clock in Oakland
and the sun is full of wine
I say, it's six o'clock in Oakland
and the sun is red with wine
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The pioneers and the indians
disagree about a lot of things
for example, the pioneer says that
when you meet a bear in the woods
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My Dear Khomeini:

I read your fourteen thousand dollar
ad asking me why the Vatican waited
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Seems there was this Professor
a member of what should be called
The Good German Department
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