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Bogard and Icon
- Callaloo
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 2000
- pp. 1177-1178
- 10.1353/cal.2000.0212
- Article
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Callaloo 23.4 (2000) 1177-1178
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Bogard and Icon
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 hole2
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 myblack 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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