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By Jack Joseph Smith
Alone
Keneth Patchen did it best In Ohio
Hemmingway did it worst in Idaho
&
That should be enough
Sorry, there is another story to tell
Clear your hearts and tear your minds
Find your worth and do not come down;
it is the signignéfance way beyond,
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the terror they talk of now
When you get old enough to see and not know
hee Aare G ewe omel
Through beauty, a cell of any kind, some kind
bow
of land or even landmark, or street lost,
with sign and cup, or taking it up again,
with the better of the gun, or contagous,
ot
and slipping away; crippled and dragging
the streets you once leaped through
Watching Christ belittled, as if even you,
were a normal man
"My sweetheart said goodby, or was it I"
Our dreams afe not easy, our wisdom is frightening
ennrt vu
Our Blackness and our handeing, and our wonderful
giving from thievery too takes our souls back
to the beginning of books,
which we write now, for our children,
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Phe ph S47: fees Pe thee
as it’ seams we have been maite, SE IU p y
forever gone