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 you DIED / because no one could remember / how perfectly / human // you / once were

 

 

Books by Kola Boof  

 

Nile River Woman (Poems, Feb. 10, 2004)  / Long Train to the Redeeming Sin-Stories About African Women (April 6, 2004)

 Flesh and the Devil: A Novel (May 11, 2004)  /   Diary of a Lost Girl (2007)

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To Be Invisible

By Kola Boof

The Black Americans are color-blind
because their
Slave Master was color-blind

And King Leopold of Belgium
and Adolph Hitler
They, too, were
color-blind

You see the B-Boy cinematographer
lighting the African
mother's face--and on film; she
becomes his color-blind creation

The Afro men and BLACK women
filling up the prisons of America
are there
because their color-blind parents
LOOKED
at them

And into beauty's make-believe sunset,
the blind lead the blind
So that you DIED
because no one could remember
how perfectly
human

you
once were

 

 

"Very few people know...that there are more pyramids in SUDAN...than in Egypt. Kola Boof wants you to know. Here is Naima Bahri (Kola Boof)...her country and her people."

Source: Diary of a Lost Girl

"Sudan is littered with not only an over abundance of pyramids-but also the grand palaces of Nubian and Cushite Kings." www.kolaboof.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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