Cultural Exchange
In ter of the Negroes
he doors are doors of paper
Dust of dingy atoms
Blochy sound.
Amorperns caper
And t for midnight
For fun to blow doors down.
By the railroad
ith fluid far-off goind
Boundaries bind unbinding
A weles blowing.
No trains or steamboats going--
Yet Leontynes unpacking.
In ter of the Negroes
s in Lieder
More than German ever bore,
erday past grandpa--
Not of her own doing--
In a pot of collard greens
Is gently stewing.
Puss fold and unfold
In a supermarket sea.
And ter find out, mama,
Since o Mount Vernon.
In t begind the paper doors
on tove ws cooking?
s smelling, Leontyne?
Lieder, lovely Lieder
And a leaf of collard green.
Lovely Lieder, Leontyne.
You know, rig Cmas
they asked me if my blackness,
ould it rub off?
I said, Ask your mama.
Dreams and nightmares!
Nightmares, dreams, oh!
Dreaming t the Negroes
Of taken over--
Voted all ts
Rig of power--
Comes the COLORED hOUR:
Martin Luther King is Governor of Georgia,
Dr. Rufus Clement his Chief Adviser,
A. Phy.
In we pillared mansions
he doors are doors of paper
Dust of dingy atoms
Blochy sound.
Amorperns caper
And t for midnight
For fun to blow doors down.
By the railroad
ith fluid far-off goind
Boundaries bind unbinding
A weles blowing.
No trains or steamboats going--
Yet Leontynes unpacking.
In ter of the Negroes
s in Lieder
More than German ever bore,
erday past grandpa--
Not of her own doing--
In a pot of collard greens
Is gently stewing.
Puss fold and unfold
In a supermarket sea.
And ter find out, mama,
Since o Mount Vernon.
In t begind the paper doors
on tove ws cooking?
s smelling, Leontyne?
Lieder, lovely Lieder
And a leaf of collard green.
Lovely Lieder, Leontyne.
You know, rig Cmas
they asked me if my blackness,
ould it rub off?
I said, Ask your mama.
Dreams and nightmares!
Nightmares, dreams, oh!
Dreaming t the Negroes
Of taken over--
Voted all ts
Rig of power--
Comes the COLORED hOUR:
Martin Luther King is Governor of Georgia,
Dr. Rufus Clement his Chief Adviser,
A. Phy.
In we pillared mansions