What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison

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ContEnts Language 15 under the Blue flame ... How Quickly He Went 19 Concordance 20 Before My History Classes 21 Depression 22 Vo-Tech 23 Pity 24 From Someplace 25 Appearances 26 In His Library 28 First Fire 29 Visiting Springfield in Winter 30 Lament 31 long time gone, long time yet to come 35 Swing Out On my rOad ... Requiem 39 black spoon 40 Annunciation 41 Jacob’s Ladder, Jacob Lawrence 42 Black Boy 43 WhatYou Want 44 Got 45 Sinner, don’t you weep 47 We were two rooms of one timber, but I left that place alone 48 How She Didn’t Say It 49 The Abattoir 50 To PutThings Right 51 How It Happened 52 Here’s $100, ’cause I’ll be coming back the other way 53 Fear 57 COntraBand ... Farm Bureau Advisor 61 Free Masons at the Door 62 Preacher Was a Stern Woman’s Son 63 Chore Song 64 At the Alpha Phi Alpha Ball 65 Ark 66 My GrandmotherTakes theYouth Group to Services 67 The Preacher’s Wife Speaks at the Dunbar High School Commencement 68 Let the People Worship asThey Will 69 Book Smart 70 Cleaning 71 The Preachers Eat Out 72 Greyhound to Baton Rouge 73 Service Station,Tennessee 74 Home Going 75 After Applying to Harvard, Colgate,Yale 76 What to Eat, and What to Drink, and What to Leave for Poison 79 This page intentionally left blank. What to Eat,What to Drink,What to LEavE for Poison This page intentionally left blank. ...