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1.
I should like to creep
Through the long brown grasses
That are your lashes;
I should like to poise
On the very brink
Of the leaf-brown pools
That are your shadowed eyes;
I should like to cleave
Without sound,
Their glimmering waters,
Their unrippled waters;
I should like to sink down
And down
And down…
And deeply drown.
2.
Would I be more than a bubble breaking?
Or an ever-widening circle
Ceasing at the marge?
Would my white bones
Be the only white bones
Wavering back and forth, back and forth
In their depths.
~"A Mona Lisa" Angelina Weld Grimke, 1927
The one who will make me the only bones.
As Queen Yemi put it: "The brother that looks into your eyes and learns something about you is worth the discovery! Know what I mean?"
Yes, I do, sis. I do.
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Music. Period.
The Bible,Leadebelly, Late Wife, Native Guard, The Maverick Room, Brutal Imagination, The Listening, Southern Road, Passing, There Eyes Were Watching God, Cane, Sula, The God of Small Things, S., Nervous Conditions, The House on Mango Street, The Bridegroom, Krik Krak!, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Six Degrees of Seperation; 101 Slave Narratives, The Souls of Black Folk
Jesus, Mama, Nat Turner, John Brown, Benjamin Banneker, Zora Neale-Hurston, Malcom X, T. Shakur