I picked up a book at Goodwill, amongst one other item. A cedar tie rack, for 1.99$. And the same price for this book by Amiri Baraka- Well, more of a reader. Sometimes when you look, and your open you find little things. Grand schemes , in little designs.

Here's one of his poems

'die schwartze Bohemien'

They laught,

and religion was something
he fount in coffee shops, by God.

It's not that I got enything
against cotton, nosiree, by God
It's just that...
Man lookatthatblonde
whewee!
I think they are not treating us like Mr. Lincun said they should
or Mr. Gandhi
For that matter. By God.
ZEN
is a bitch! Like ''Bird'' was,
Cafe Olay
for me, Miss.

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He was by no means illiterate. His style is complex and plain at the same time. Like an excellent use of common language in the hands of a semantics debonaire.
Vous etes de faux Negres- Rimbaud