- Feb 25, 2001
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Reading The 'Black' On White Pages
See
Cos' they didn't give me
No black history books
But I know
That slaves
Didn't just learn
How to read
And write
Without first, risking
Their 'worthless' lives
But
I could still see
The tall, dark, shadow
Of 'black'
Somewhere
Between the lines
As I read
On white pages
And
I didn't know
That having
White
Insight
Would lead to my
Discovery
I read
Hemingway,
Dickens and Shakespeare
Because I wanted
To pass the course
Of white lies
But
When Hemingway failed me
And I realised
That the Bell didn't 'Toll' for me
And
Simultaneously
Othello married that white woman
That's when I knew
That I was missing
From the story
And so
I searched
The white pages
Again
To try and find myself
And I found myself
Too
On page 34
Or on some other significant number
I was sitting on top of verbs
And so I viewed
The action words
As a sign
And now I
Design
My own story lines
Because
I read
The
'Black'
On
White pages
*meditate*
this edition has been blackbelle's vision @ Feb.25/01
All Rights Reserved
See
Cos' they didn't give me
No black history books
But I know
That slaves
Didn't just learn
How to read
And write
Without first, risking
Their 'worthless' lives
But
I could still see
The tall, dark, shadow
Of 'black'
Somewhere
Between the lines
As I read
On white pages
And
I didn't know
That having
White
Insight
Would lead to my
Discovery
I read
Hemingway,
Dickens and Shakespeare
Because I wanted
To pass the course
Of white lies
But
When Hemingway failed me
And I realised
That the Bell didn't 'Toll' for me
And
Simultaneously
Othello married that white woman
That's when I knew
That I was missing
From the story
And so
I searched
The white pages
Again
To try and find myself
And I found myself
Too
On page 34
Or on some other significant number
I was sitting on top of verbs
And so I viewed
The action words
As a sign
And now I
Design
My own story lines
Because
I read
The
'Black'
On
White pages
*meditate*
this edition has been blackbelle's vision @ Feb.25/01
All Rights Reserved
