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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` #1 OF MANY: IN THE DREAM, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In the dream it's black
Last Line: Of a car fourteen years old cracked across the incisors of a decayed center %of blue fields
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And I am holding out my hands
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


ALL THE COLORS OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the colors of the race. Human, of course
Last Line: All the colors of the race. Human, of course
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


ASPHALT, by JOHN MINCZESKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: At st. Stans, back in seventh grade
Last Line: Center of the earth
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Children; Race Awareness; Youth


AT THE MEETING, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the meeting %they said they wanted to send
Last Line: And my motion lost because I forgot %I couldn't be a boy
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


BAD GUYS, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: We live the same: our way
Last Line: Of our eyes for %any %bad guys
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


BENIN SILVER FATHER SLAVES, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In the ancient kingdom of benin water was the realm
Last Line: Metal, and ships upon water. Did he ever really love me?
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BLACK BOYS PLAY THE CLASSICS, by TOI DERRICOTTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): African American Children; Music & Musicians; Race Awareness


BLEEDING FROM THE HEAD, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The black ears of a cat
Last Line: Like a savage beast %in bethlehem
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BLOOD ON THE TRACKS; (OR, I'M SO LONESOME I COULD DIE), by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Train yards, uniforms
Last Line: I couldn't make %& I want to kill
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BLUE, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As through marble or the lining of
Subject(s): Race Awareness; Ancestors & Ancestry; Heritage; Heredity


BORDERS, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great grandma ida came from a small village
Last Line: Who is daddy now to %me
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


BREAKING KARMA #5, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It is like a scene in a play
Last Line: Pizza or something. I close my eyes, chew, swallow
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BREAKING KARMA #6, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I'm in the movies now playing the part
Last Line: Drips down her face & disappears, than see you
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BREAKING KARMA #7, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You disappear down the hall
Last Line: I release you %& step out
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BREAKING KARMA #8, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I haven't seen her in ten, eleven years
Last Line: A box in my brain opens and the one %that's in my chest closes
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BREAKING KARMA #9, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I am in washington, d. C., at a borders bookstore
Last Line: Breaking like the question %why whoosh whoosh why
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


BROKEN, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I think everything in me has been broken. The shiny ceramic red heart
Last Line: Holes. Vibrating, at last, light, life, mine. At last, broken
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


CHAVA, CATALOGUE CHAIRS, & THREE COLORED SCARVES, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Hanging on the back of three kitchen chairs
Last Line: Think to dispose of the bottle, remember chava screaming
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


DARK SORES, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dark sores black wings of expectation
Last Line: Open and meet hope at the train station
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


DISCRIMINATION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't mind the human race
Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism; Human Race; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


DISCRIMINATION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't mind the human race
Last Line: And you must admit, they smell
Subject(s): Mankind; Race Awareness; Racism


DUST ANGELS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roaring back into town after all night desert
Last Line: Upon her spirit of pauseless %offerings
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Dust; Haiti; Holidays; New Year; Poverty; Race Awareness; Religion


ETHNOLOGY, by HENRY WILLIAM HANEMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rumanians plunder and raid
Last Line: But kurds have a whey of their own.
Subject(s): Race Awareness


ETUDE FOR MEMORY AND GUITAR: 1. TWO SISTERS, by CONSTANCE MERRITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not unlikely that you will find the sisters quite alike
Last Line: For all such musings.
Subject(s): Memory; Race Awareness; Sickness; Sisters; Touch (sense); Illness


FAIRY TALE #1; OR, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD REVISITED, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Incest is the wolf
Last Line: Plucked out and sent into the forest alone?
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In the dream my father %is a mean man
Last Line: He doesn't get in %and I fight back
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


FEMINIST PHOTOGRAPHER, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The smell of sweat & leather climb up my nose as I
Last Line: Covering me with the sweet sticky stuff of life
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mama is chocolate: you must be swirls %of dark fudge
Last Line: Flips of sprinkles %on your %summer %face
Variant Title(s): Flavors (1
Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Race Awareness


FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Daddy is vanilla: you must be mean %old %bean
Last Line: But mostly you %are vanilla %up %your %arms
Variant Title(s): Flavors (2
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


FLAVORS, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Me %is better %butter: I must be %pecans
Last Line: It is a new flavor. %for %love
Variant Title(s): Flavors (3
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


FOR EVERY ONE, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: For every one we know the inside
Last Line: True: red for every one
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


FOUND POEM; IN THE NEW YORK TIMES IN AN ARTICLE WRITTEN ...ON RWANDA, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The dead, the doctor says, are speaking to us
Last Line: That crushed the eye socket socket socket and drove into his brain
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


FOUR / FOOT / FEAT, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine I am standing with
Last Line: Four foot feat: enough to make me sit %right down
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


GHOSTS, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: There are thirteen windows in this room
Last Line: I see my mother and father at the top of the sky. My parents %have come here, home, to help me, ghos
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


GOING HOME, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I am going home tomorrow
Last Line: In the daylight. But right now I'm trees and windows, moving
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


GORILLA IN THE MIDST #10, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Gorilla gorilla %gorilla dick
Last Line: Gorilla in the mist!
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


GORILLA IN THE MIDST #11, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My eye is big %a giant veined tumor
Last Line: And an eye that now sees no evil
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


GORILLA IN THE MIDST #8, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Dreaming it reminded him of those
Last Line: Where is she?
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


GORILLA IN THE MIDST #9, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The wheels of the car are rolling
Last Line: Gorilla in the mist
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


GREAT GRANDMA IDA, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great grandma ida came from a small village
Last Line: Across the mediterranean sea
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


GRIMM'S LAW; A NEW SONG, by CHARLES NEAVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Etymology once was a wild kind of thing
Last Line: That grimm's law was what caused the confusion at babel
Subject(s): Anthropology; Germany; Race Awareness


HUMPTY DUMPTY HEART, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My heart leaks knowing
Last Line: Once it's eaten it's over
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


I AM, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mama is black
Last Line: My age %and %sex %and %clarinet
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


I AM MAKING A CIRCLE FOR MY SELF, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Grandpa perry is %surely %in
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


I CAN DO MY HAIR, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can do my hair short
Last Line: I am in a rush. I want to be %the %best
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


I KEEP GOING, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: But I don't want to write about
Last Line: Either way -- his hill, my hill, I keep going
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


I KNOW THE RULES, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know the rules and I am what I am
Last Line: Circle: %hold %and %hug
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


I KNOW WE CAN G BACK SO FAR, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: We can go back so far
Last Line: Smoke of burning plantations
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


I THINK THE REAL COLOR IS BEHIND THE COLOR, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Under that skin and under that %face %is the real %race
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


I WAS HARRIET, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To %free %dom
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


I'LL PLAY THE BLUES FOR YOU, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It is more like a wolf
Last Line: Drops of blood in the snow remind me of you
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


IF THEY HATE ME, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I will %stay %right %here
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn,
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism


IN BOTH THE FAMILIES, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: We fit in
Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Race Awareness


IN OUR ONE FAMILY, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: In our one family, around %this
Last Line: We are trying for the %dream
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


INDIANS, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In the dream there are three people, bows and arrows
Last Line: But they keep coming back like the palestinians, niggers -- the vanquished dream
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


INTERNATIONAL HAWAII, by SHIRLEY LUKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hawaiians in their hula skirts
Last Line: The land of music and the flower lei.
Subject(s): Hawaii; Race Awareness


LADY SAID:, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lady said: what are you going to be
Last Line: To make it hard for her
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


LEAVE THE LIGHTS ON, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It is an act of courage to say, leave the lights on
Last Line: Nothing essential, but still, so much is gone
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


LIGHTHOUSE; (OR, 6 A.M. THE DREAM), by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: 6 a.M. The dream: at some halfway house
Last Line: Root illumination, dark as blood, at last one
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


LOOKING AT PLATE NO. 4: HOMICIDE BODY OF JOHN RODGERS..OCTOBER 21, 191, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I'm looking at the big black
Last Line: Crashing like tattoos in time
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


MY FATHER'S SILENCE, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The korean woman reads first
Last Line: Frozen on the little legs of a tricycle
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


NEVERLAND, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I remember michael jackson
Last Line: Wanting wanting %what I can't have
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


OF THE RACE, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some day I will have babies with %high
Last Line: All the colors
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


ON MY APPLICATIONS, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: On my applications I can %put
Last Line: If you take her as she %is
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


ON THE SUBWAY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy and I faced each other
Subject(s): Subways; Race Awareness


ONE YEAR AFTER: 1, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not once in all our days of poignant love
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of


ORDINARY EVENING, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: My sister tells me it was just an ordinary evening, but evening is never
Last Line: Kill him, let's kill the old man
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


PASSING, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called it
Last Line: Or is %it running up my spine?
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


PAST, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have all these parts stuffed in me
Last Line: Of my new %day
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


PEOPLE, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To those fixed on white,
Subject(s): Race Awareness


RACE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave me here those looks of yours!
Last Line: Unto each that yet shall live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Beauty; Race Awareness; Youth


RACE RELATIONS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sang in the sun
Last Line: Of the breakers of stone
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Race Awareness; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism


REMEMBER:, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember: long ago before people moved
Last Line: Long ago there was one people: %one color %one race
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


SAW JAMES BROWN, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Last Line: Burning burning %in
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


SENSES OF HERITAGE, by NTOZAKE SHANGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandpa waz a doughboy from carolina
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette
Subject(s): Race Awareness; African Americans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Trees; Moon; Family Life; Negroes; American Blacks; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives


SESTINA, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Last night after school I finally got around
Last Line: Turning me toward the dark then the light again. I hope
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


SHE ASKS ABOUT MY MOTHER, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: In therapy she asks about my mother
Last Line: On to my uterus, swollen with these tumors, to the very last
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


SOME DIFFERENT KINDA BOOKS, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: She asks why we always %read books about black people
Last Line: I juts wanna read some different kinda books
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


SOME OLD ONES, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some old ones talk about
Last Line: Talk about: brothers %and %sisters
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


SONG (1), by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have the fore %head
Last Line: Has that russian %jewish %bump. %jump
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


SONG (2), by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am of the earth and the earth is of me
Last Line: We are together: sisters
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


SOUVENIR FROM ANYWHERE, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: People of color untie-dyed
Subject(s): African Americans; Race Awareness; Negroes; American Blacks


STILL FINDING OUT, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finding out that grandpa perry
Last Line: Part still %finding %out
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


STORIES FROM THE BODY, by DENISE DUHAMEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He hopes I'm not squeamish about scars
Last Line: In the dark, on 11oth street, in august
Subject(s): Race Awareness; Human Body


SUM PEOPLE, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: The black man %said
Last Line: One %plus %one
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


TAP, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man beating the drum learned rhythm
Last Line: Makes tribal dancing other than you might think
Subject(s): Drums; Insanity; Musical Instruments; Race Awareness


THE BARRIER, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must not gaze at them although
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Race Awareness; Love - Loss Of


THE LONESOME DREAM, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the america of the dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Dreams; United States; Race Awareness; Nightmares; America


THERE ARE BLACK, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are black guards slamming cell gates on black men
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Race Awareness; Convicts


THERE IS SO MUCH, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And hug %daddy %in the street
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


TO CERTAIN CRITICS, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then call me traitor if you must,
Subject(s): Criticism And Critics; Race Awareness


TODAY, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Today is the day you have been waiting for
Last Line: When you would at last open the door
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


TRILINGUAL, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can talk %black
Last Line: So no %one %understands
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


UNCLE JIM, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Race Awareness


VILLANELLE, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: At school the workshop focuses on villanelle
Last Line: Gently I enter this broken rectum of light %a silver motorcycle on black wings
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


WALDSTERBEN, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Waldsterben, in german, it is the dying of the woods
Last Line: On a bicycle, pedaling from journalists, drenched in sweat
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


WAY I SEE ANY HOPE FOR LATER, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Stop looking. %start loving
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are talking about %the ones who pick their friends
Last Line: Golden from the %inside %out
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


WHEN THEY ASKED, by ARNOLD ADOFF    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I had the answers
Subject(s): Family Life; Race Awareness


WHITE GIRL WHINE, by ALISON UMMINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm at a party, see, and someone mentions west side story
Last Line: Like you could possibly take them seriously
Subject(s): Colors; Race Awareness


WHO ARE THOSE TWO PEOPLE? SHE ASKED, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Last Line: Taken, before you children were born! The lipstick not yet a blur on her mouth
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


WINDOW OPENS, by SAPPHIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: It is like the curtains have been thrown open in front
Last Line: Is as big as the back. I am not four, his penis %is not my father's. My father is dead, it's my life
Subject(s): African American Lesbians; Homosexuality; Race Awareness


YELLOW, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He wants to be an indian
Subject(s): Yellow (color); Native Americans; Race Awareness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


[WHITE PAPER #28], by MARTHA COLLINS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could get a credit card loan car
Last Line: Before me where to choose to and I
Subject(s): Race Awareness