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This is a poem--
it's the poem that

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ends the book "Good Times."

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And it's the one
poem in this book

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that my editor didn't like.

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I read it every chance I get.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Perhaps you will understand
why she didn't like it.

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I understand that,
but I like it.

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It was written for my children.

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I have four daughters
and two sons.

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They are very beautiful.

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The poem is called
"Admonitions."

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"boys i don't promise
you nothing but this.

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what you pawn, i will redeem.

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what you steal, i will conceal.

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my private silence to your
public guilt is all i got.

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girls first time a
white man opens his fly

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like a good thing,
we'll just laugh.

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laugh real loud, my black women.

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children, when they ask you,
why is your mama so funny?

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say, she is a poet.

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she don't have no sense."

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[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]

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