#AmericanWriters
I sat there singing her Songs in the dark. She said; 'I do not understand The words’.
How quiet It is in this sick room Where on the bed A silent woman lies between two lo… Life and Death,
When the shoe strings break On both your shoes And you’re in a hurry— That’s the blues. When you go to buy a candy bar
Only dumb guys fight. If I wasn’t dumb I wouldn’t be fightin’. I could make six dollars a day On the docks
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
Tell all my mourners To mourn in red — Cause there ain’t no sense In my bein’ dead.
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
When the old junk man Death Comes to gather up our bodies And toss them into the sack of obl… I wonder if he will find The corpse of a white multi—millio…
When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. Since I come up North de
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
Listen! Dear dream of utter aliveness— Touching my body of utter death— Tell me, O quickly! dream of aliv… The flaming source of your bright…
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are w… Her bandage hides two festering so… That once perhaps were eyes.
Love Is a ripe plum Growing on a purple tree. Taste it once And the spell of its enchantment
I got to leave this town. It’s a lonesome place. Got to leave this town cause It’s a lonesome place. A po’, po’ boy can’t
I am your son, white man! Georgia dusk And the turpentine woods. One of the pillars of the temple f… You are my son!