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Callaloo 23.4 (2000) 1177-1178



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Fred Moten


mission
pah'nuh
black things
black change'a
wiship
and dealing with shit around the corner
under the angle sing
like a buried library
black chain
fuse
black string
n
d mention
ill speech and horn, fascinated
observers either somebody from Greenville
or New Haven in white, blacks out
black hole

2

     I knew

    never touch 'em at the checkout

    but here not look where you going?
    catch myself on erect gray jersey
    and pure glare of the checkout but
    scratch! a blue nail in my palm like
    bloom and strife of almost a and thangs
    she let me violate, she let me regulate [End Page 1177]
    tomorrow I'm cyrillic and she my

black square

    way up in the corner of the room, like endora. endora from jamaica, blue 9, blue n



Fred Moten teaches in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He has published several essays on black music, literature, and politics, and a chapbook of poems called Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000).

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