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It's another poem I
kind of like to read.

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I like to think about why I
have an odd mind sometime.

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And one of the things
I feel badly about

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are the Black people who died
20 years ago, because they died

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before the new consciousness.

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Do you know what I mean?

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And so people like
my mother never

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really knew that they
were very beautiful.

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And I feel badly about that.

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So I wrote a poem about it.

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It has no title.

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So close.

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They come so close
to being beautiful.

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If they had hung on
maybe five more years,

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we would have been together
for these new things.

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And for them old niggers
to have come so close,

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all seem like some Black people
missed out even more than all

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the time.

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