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Poem for Black Boys
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Nikki Giovanni
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(With special love to James) Where are your heroes, my little Black ones You are the Indian you so disdainfully shoot Not the big bad sheriff on his faggoty white horse You should play run-away-slave Or Mau Mau These are more in line with your history Ask your mothers for a Rap Brown gun Santa just may comply if you wish hard enough Ask for CULLURD instead on Monopoly DO NOT SIT DO NOT FOLLOW KING GO DIRECTLY TO STREETS This is a game you can win. As you sit there with all your understanding eyes You know the truth of what I’m saying Play Back-to-Black Grow a natural and practice vandalism These are useful games (some say a skill even learnеd) There is a new gamе I must tell you of Its called Catch The Leader Lying (and knowing your sense of the absurd you will enjoy this) also a company called revolution has just issued a special kit for little boys called Burn Baby I’m told it has full instructions on how to siphon gas and fill a bottle Then our old friend Hide and Seek becomes valid Because we have much to seek and ourselves to hide from a lecherous dog And this poem I give is worth much more than any nickle bag or ten cent toy And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play
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