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"Kara Walker Draws the Blues."

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I'm not a huge fan
of Kara Walker,

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but she had these series
of drawings that were

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just amazing a few years ago.

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And one of them were
of Black entertainers

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and somewhere in
the '20s and they

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were doing all kinds
of interesting things.

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There are big lips and fellatio,
that old black and white, lynch

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robes and a music
stand, guitar and feets

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do your stuff, radiating
gestures of chalk and dread,

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one humpback whale's
song of dismemberment.

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Resilience as trace
and consequences.

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Pedestals crumbling,
hellhounds around the bend.

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Yellow gals rolling across
the whorehouse floor,

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a gallery of dead artist
bobbleheads mute.

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Cunnilingus as afterthought,
virgin's blood,

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sought and sold, soil
dark and dying,

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cotton's soft center 
plucked from its cutting bowl.

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Blood's drumbeat,
deviators, Jim Crow howling,

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make away, make away,
make away, Dixieland.

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Some joy.

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Banjo, guitar, colored voice,
swamp creatures, divination,

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crack shuffle, mocking the white
man's brand of smoking rope

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empty.

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I love that one.