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The Black poet.

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He mounts the stand
and people turn colors.

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Where on Earth could
he be coming from?

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What new can he tell us
about the racial situation?

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Why are there
oceans in his poem?

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Sunshine, glacial
journeys toward reunion.

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What's the matter
with his diction, man?

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He sure don't sound
all that black.

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Now, if he was Kenyan or better
yet, from Mozambique or even

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from St Martin's,
it would be easier

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to relate all them drumbeats
and bananas in his blood

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with the sun pounding down
and around that afrique look.

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It all has to do with sound.

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Anyway, if he was
for real, he'd be

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off chasing fields
or chasing flies--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--or punching somebody out.

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Anyway, he's a danger to the
community, you've got to admit.

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[APPLAUSE]

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I have two versions
of that poem and I

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haven't decided which one
I'm going to stay with.