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...,and maybe
the only people in the world

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which are really
make something of them.

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When it comes to this untouchable
Connection of mind and heart,

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of intellect
and passion went,

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we were through one
deceptive landscape.

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That's how it was for you too,
when you wrote these words.

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Words that every rebel,
every dissident, every revolutionary,

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every active artist,

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from Cape Town to Poland,
from Waycross to Dublin

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can remember.

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You don't choose it,

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in opposition
to stand by society,

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you'd rather feel good
among his fellow human beings,

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as being mocked by them
and being hated.

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In a way, theirs is mockery

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and their hatred is almost touching,

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<i>because he is so blind.</i>

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Monday night, May 22nd,
died Mr. Hughes.

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Presented to honor him
Riverside Radio, New York,

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In memory of Langston Hughes

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a mixture of tribute,
memory and his own works.

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The sun is setting,
I will sing about it.

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I notice how I'm becoming melancholy,
what will these blues bring?

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I'm so miserable that I...
don't know where to turn

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or where to go. Because nobody wants to
you when you feel so dirty.

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Langston,
I sing these blues for you.

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You love this music,

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God knows
We love this music too.

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Whatever happened
with the dream deferred,

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not much has changed,

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in our words
Is still strength.

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I wonder
just like you asked yourself,

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and I have seen
how far you have come.

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History has forgotten names,
but she doesn't forget yours.

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Is there a life,
that you hid,

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because you believed
it is forbidden,

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we seek what is true,
because we want to know

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who you are.

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Langston Hughes,

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Friend of Countee Cullen
and Bruce Nugent,

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Friend of Altan Locke
and Wallace Thurman,

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famous for her intelligence
and their art.

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They were looking for recognition
of all black people

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or the black middle class and
the white literary scene?

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Hughes wrote,

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the ordinary black man
knew nothing about the Renaissance.

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In any case, she didn't show any
Impact on his wages.

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Baraka said Harlem was vicious,
modernist, conflict-ridden.

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You could have such beauty
don't understand.

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The ones so passionate
and is revolutionary.

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He understood the beauty of those
who were gay?

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Homosexuality was a sin
against the race.

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She had to remain a secret,
even if many shared it.

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He was in a field,

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in a field with blue smoke,
black poppies and red lilies.

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He searched on his hands and knees,

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searched between black poppies
and red lilies.

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He was looking
pushed the poppy stalks aside.

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And then he saw two strong legs,
Legs of a dancer.

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He liked the contours,

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his eyes wandered from the
ankles to firm thighs,

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to the round ass and then
to the supple, slim waist,

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the strong torso
and the broad, deep chest.

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The brown eyes looked at him,

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his hair curly and black
and completely confused.

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It was Beauty.

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Beauty smiled and looked at him
and smiled and said:

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I'll wait.

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That confused him. And he sat
continues his search on his hands and knees,

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pushed poppy and lily stems aside,

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a poppy, a black poppy,

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a lily, a red lily.

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Then he woke up.

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Beauty smiled in her sleep.

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Half of his face
stained by the sun,

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the other half in the shade.

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His eyelashes flashed blue
Cobweb shadow on his cheek.

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His lips were so beautiful

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questioning...

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I will kiss your lips.

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How he would like to
Kiss Beauty's lips!

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He blushed with embarrassment.

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Was it really shame?

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His pulse was pounding
right down to your fingertips.

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He felt Beauty's lips on his.
His temples throbbed.

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Beauty's breaths were now short,
a gentle staccato.

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Beauty's lips felt cool,
cool and hard.

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It takes a lot of pressure
to wake someone up.

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He felt his breath
the nostrils and on the lips.

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Beauty's lips pressed hard
against his teeth.

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He was shaking. He felt Beauty's body
close to his,

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hot, tense, soft...

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He said, speak normally,
when you say my name,

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without any ceremony
or sadness.

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My name should
be pronounced without posturing,

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without the ghost of a shadow.

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Cruising.

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The area is dangerous
anyway we go there.

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The long way.

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The jingle of our keys
drowns out our footsteps.

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to be under the sky,
above or below a man.

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This is our heat,
it radiates into the night.

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Sperm glistens on our hands.

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A field of flowers blooms,
WHERE we gather,

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in empty warehouses.

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Our seed falls,

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without the noise
or the grace of the stars.

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We lurk in the shadows.

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We are the hunger of the shadows.

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We don't need it in the dark
to say: I love you.

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The darkness swallows it
and sighs as we sigh,

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when we each other
rise from our knees.

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I long
after past kisses,

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after the wild lips,
that certain roads offer.

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Love as a game of hide and seek.

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This kind of war scares me.

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I don't want to die among soldiers
that I don't love.

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I don't just want to
love my kind.

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But love is a tricky word
In this small town.

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And those who are looking for them
is not uncommon to find

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with the face
down in her bed.

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Those who find love nurture it
or destroy them from within.

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But the
who are without illusions,

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those who have lost their shine,
the dance in the moonlight, the shore

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I see myself like them
after the past.

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When I was ten, thirteen, twenty,

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I wanted candy, five dollars,

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be taken along.

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Back then, dark-skinned people were in vogue.

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White patrons wanted
their black artists and poets,

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about the intuitions of primitive people
to be able to understand.

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They didn't want modernism,
they wanted black art,

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Art and artists
should stay in their place.

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were in the late twenties
Dark-skinned people are no longer in vogue.

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The patrons gave her money
for other things.

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New Yorkers who care about themselves
stopped, turned to N. Coward,

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and artists and poets of color
suffered from hunger.

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Smiling pulls out
the story the knife.

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He speaks damn good English.

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I'm his brother, Carver.

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He doesn't say "dis" and "dat",
as it is always quoted.

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Every word he speaks
It's very clear.

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You probably have it
never really heard

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you're always looking for something different from him.

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His name is not important,
it would be pure coincidence

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if he had a name,
a face, mind.

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If he's not in a good mood,
he's in a bad way.

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Either way, you're watching him.

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You want his pleasure,

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but you don't want guilt
nor claims of ownership.

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You don't notice a lot about him,

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he doesn't always wear a ski hat,

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eats chicken
and fucks like a monkey.

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He doesn't always live with his mother,

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or from the street
or from some bitch.

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You show concern, give him
20 dollars for a taxi, as you say,

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and send him out of your house.

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Your paths will cross next
Day, and you don't know him.

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But he remembers

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his seed has thinned your blood.

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He doesn't dance well
but you don't notice it.

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He is for you
only visible in the dark.

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I slide my pants down
in front of his mouth.

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The film roll rattles in the housing,

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during the silent film
for a quarter

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turns and turns.

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We're panting in a dark room.

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The smell of our hair
burns in our nostrils.

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I moan
as his mouth swallows me.

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This is the first sound

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In this silent film.

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Then he groans.

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This is how the film gets its dialogue.

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Now we think when we fuck,

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this might kill us.

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Maybe there's a hole the size of a needle
in a condom,

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a deadly hole.

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We don't kiss big ones,
dark strangers more,

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no longer suck mustaches.

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Our lips and tongues
no longer touch everyone.

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We're going back to
the pictures, the phone, the toys,

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former lovers,
to private life.

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Now we think when we fuck,

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that could kill us.

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This kiss could turn to stone.

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Sometimes, half asleep,

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are these faces
projected on the wall of memory,

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and I'll be back immediately
in the gallery,

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Where I see these faces
saw for the first time.

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I remember watching Altan Locke
met at a party,

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how I kissed Langston Hughes,
what I will never forget,

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how I was photographed
by Carl von Vechten,

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like I read Baldwin's "The Amen Corner"
brought to the stage for the first time,

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like me Howard Jackmans
straightened tie,

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that Countee Cullens me
appearance doesn't interest,

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how I hunted dark meat
with Auden in Harlem,

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how I was loved.

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What was apparently clear to him at the time
I wasn't aware of it for a long time:

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We were connected
through our homosexual desire.

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Finally I realized: they had
violated the rules for dark-skinned people,

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by writing.

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But before I came to terms with it,

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I had to learn soft boundaries
they had set for themselves,

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and soft
others had given up on them.

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The moral meaning of
Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes

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and ignoring Altan Locke would mean

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Your entire society
to emasculate, to embalm.

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No more black couple
that kisses,

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Writes poems about each other
or paint for each other.

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After all, it would mean

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like so often in the
American historiography,

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when she tries
to deal with the “Negro” riddle,

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almost everything that is not white
to deny.

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Smiling pulls out
the story the knife.

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I loved my friend.
He left me.

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There's nothing more to say.

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The poem ends so gently,
how it started.

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I loved my friend.

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Oh star fields
across Harlem's streets,

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O breath of forgetfulness,
this is the night.

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A city,
built to the mother's singing.

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A city,
she dreams to a lullaby.

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Hold out your hand, black man,
get a star

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from the breath of forgetfulness,
which is the night,

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just get one star.

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You make me ask for things

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which most men
believe you have it under your belt.

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I wanted more.

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I was able to throw my legs up
like satellites,

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but I knew
I fuck fallen angels.

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Through me
they felt like demigods.

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I believed in my mission
in the war zone:

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Don't create the injured, heal them.

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But I was the wounded one
almost dead,

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and helped the uninjured.

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Men whose lively hearts
became weak in the night,

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who burst into tears, on the
Knees went because of her lovers.

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They said they didn't want to suffer,
what I had suffered.

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Touch me, Hannibal,
touch me, Toussaint,

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I am a revolution
without bloodshed.

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I can keep things in order
adapt to my desperation.

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You can with your legs
almost reaching to heaven.

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I can be an angel who falls.

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I saw you last night...
- Many residents are never found.

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...in the basement...
- Many canoes capsized.

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...the “Brass Rail”.
- Your dark face a lake...

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“...full of laughter.
- I hear the sea...

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The cries of your voice...
- ... fall from the sky.

249
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...behind your eyes.
- You danced with the boys...

250
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Twilight light.
- The boys danced, darling.

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My tongue... touches you...
wanders... indiscreetly...

252
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between your thighs,
like a cancer.

253
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,435
Your body a green light...
- I was naked with you.

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...that challenges you.

255
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,989
You were in the mirrors.
- The light... — Her arms...

256
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,875
The boys whispered about you.
- Singspore Slings for your wellbeing...

257
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...To the music from the jukebox.

258
00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:43,509
They were promises
cooled by ice cubes...

259
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,831
He abused her terribly,

260
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,559
beat them up.

261
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,040
Then he went away,
stole everything she had.

262
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,509
She tried to find out
where David had gone.

263
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,033
There was no trace
Wherever she was looking.

264
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,313
Who could have predicted this?

265
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,914
She didn't know
where David had gone.

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The sun rises.

267
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,756
This will be my song.

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I was melancholy all night.