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These are two poems I'm going to
read that come from composites

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of some students
that I had at Sarah

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Lawrence,
African-American students

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I had at Sarah Lawrence.

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First one is a true story.

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As she told me and I
just wrote it down.

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It's called "Spic."

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"This time, all they do
was roll the window down,

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framing your body after
they pull the car over,

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oh I'm sorry, after
they pulled the car

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over the lip of the curb.

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This time, it only
goes this far.

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No bullets.

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No spit.

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No hard clack of a door
announcing its desire to spring

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open.

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This time, you're let
off with just a reminder.

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There are catcalls.

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A loose slice of male tongues.

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A dumb prayer of turf.

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They mispronounce your
complexion, black woman

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and roll away, you
think, for darker skin."