Fred D'Aguiar Poems

If it's black you want then black you will get.
Each sunrise a ball kicked from one end of a blue field
Sails across to a black goal mouth and sinks into it and all
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Long before you see train
The tracks sing and tremble,
Long before you know direction
Train come from, a hum
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The shoemaker's wife ran preschool
With a fist made not so much of iron
But wire bristles on a wooden brush.
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Sky seems round every time she cries
Trees knit fingers and thumbs over the road
Providing complete cover from sky fruit
Straight road longer than sight
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In 1979 or '80, Lynford French
played Moving Target as we cried,
"The revolution will not be televised."
Yesterday, Gil Scott Heron died.
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George in Georgetown, Guyana,
Aged ninety and no longer counting.
Out early mornings and early evenings,
Blocked off entire hours from
12 to 4 for rest in his air-conditioned
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