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68 • JiNGLES Soul can sell cigarettes, cancer & burn, sell two all beef patties, special-sauce-lettuce-cheese, the green grease that lines your scalp, makes your cornrows gleam, turn Afros into earth-bound satellites. Soul can sell suburbia: do-gooder white family with sassy black maid named after a state where Africans & Indians turned brothers, understood the insanity of serving anyone who claims to own your blood. Soul can sell soul, can sell your soul—the only soul you’ve known. With a wife, two babies, soul will be sold 69 • if the money’s right & our bellies don’t have to growl tonight. ...

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