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a Makabe warrior / tastes death on his lips, beats babies

out of worn wombs, / grins with grace

 
 

 

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Elvin Jones Jazz Drummer

    

                      By Etheridge Knight

 

ELVIN JONES

has fire and steel in his hands

rides high, is a Makabe warrior

tastes death on his lips, beats babies

out of worn wombs,

                              grins with grace,

and cries in the middle of his eyes.

 

ELVIN JONES

thumps the big circle in bare feet,

opens wide the big arms and,

like the sea,

                  swallows us.

 

Source: Negro Digest Sept/October 1968

posted 8 June 2007

 

 

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