Shane McCrae Poems

Brother is we is each of us we ghosts
Brother of white folks we
don't never known us brother we
Because we never doesn't fits
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Nicholas turned eleven two

Months he ago a he ago

I after him a-running still
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Today you will the say the any ever

best thing any ever anyone

Said about Paul Celan
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A white man wouldn't less

He stripped me naked was

Whipping me know
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Before it disappears

on the sand his long white beard before it disappears

The face of the man

in the waves I ask her does she see it ask her does
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