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I grew up in Buffalo, New York.

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And the first book that
was published, Good Times,

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is about--

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a lot of it is about
Buffalo, New York.

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I'd like to read
a group of poems.

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I'll read them together.

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It was about something
that happened at that time.

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It was-- I always say that it
shows Buffalo is an odd city.

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It sometimes acts as
if it has no class.

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And somebody's from Buffalo.

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Is that right?

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No class.

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Anyway, we had a riot.

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And we even had kind
of a no class riot.

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And this poem is about
trying to understand

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that thing that happened.

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Now you have to remember, I have
to say this in the beginning,

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you have to remember that
this was during the time

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when Governor
Rockefeller would always

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turn to his troubleshooter when
anything happened in Buffalo

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and that was Nelson Rockefeller.

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No that was Jackie
Robinson, what am I saying?

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When I thought of trouble
you see, I thought of Nelson.

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That was Jackie Robinson and
he would send him wherever.

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So

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Tyrone. One.

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On this day, the
Buffalo soldiers

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have taken up position, corner
of Jefferson and Sycamore.

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We will sack the city.

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We'll sink the city.

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Seek the city.

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