Shooting the Dog (audio only)
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Dedicated to the Poet Agostinho Neto,
President of The People’s Republic of Angola: 1976
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I will no longer lightly walk behind
a one of you who fear me:
Be afraid.
I plan to give you reasons for your jumpy fits
and facial tics
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I refuse to choose
between lynch rope and gang rape
the blues is the blues!
my skin and my sex: Deep dues
I have no wish to escape