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Now with the Morning forJames Baldwin and BillyJack Gaither Last evening they were happywith my black skin stripped from twigs Their voices found my death in the night Now with the morning their pale knuckles must speakin tongues on their brother's skin The rage of the song playsbackwards The rage plays on Lost Hebrew translatedinto wounds Godgave Noah the rainbow sign Let the sins of the father be buried for three days No more water thefirenext time Let evil fall to dust blow away in a storm They have come abandoning my empty ashes bringing the blood back home to the altar Now the whipcrack of sheets twirlsinto a noose Their brothers crawl on broken knees toJordan fleeing their keepers The Word behind them stamped into cooked offerings 45 ...

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