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Reprinted from She Speaks Psalms by Michelle R. Yisrael

ISBN 1-60813-056-8

There's a sister in the White House!

braiding her daughters hair sitting on the kitchen floor betwixt her long brown legs

cooking chicken flipped and turned in a bowl of white flour

frying hot water cornbread with water from the White House kitchen tap

that satisfying scent she got from her black mamma in the hood

and smellin' the White House up with sweet potatoes, peach cobbler, black eyed peas, and collard greens on the stove

insisting her children make up their own beds

Whose youth are hopeful and now don't have so

Reprinted from She Speaks Psalms       ISBN 1-60813-056-8

Ripping in the Village Street

Chasing gray haired women

Running in flocks after someone to beat

Young urban girls and young urban boys

Killing, maimed, and broken

Playing with guns like they are toys

Taken into Egypt again long ago

Brought into this North Country by ship

Chained, shackled, whipped, mamas couldn't see them grow

Stolen from the Ivory Coast

Sold for bondmen and bondwomen

Welcomed by an unsavory host

Urban youth hidden in prison houses

Standing at the heads of the street

On this corner and that

Filled with iniquity

Loved waxed colder

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