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You say, “Close your eye to the butterfly!”
I say, “Don’t blink!”
Copyright © 2017 by the June M. Jordan Literary Estate. Used with the permission of the June M. Jordan Literary Estate, www.junejordan.com.
Dedicated to the Poet Agostinho Neto,
President of The People’s Republic of Angola: 1976
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I will no longer lightly walk behind
a one of you who fear me:
Be afraid.
I plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits
and facial tics
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I refuse to choose
between lynch rope and gang rape
the blues is the blues!
my skin and my sex: Deep dues
I have no wish to escape