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Who will survive in America?

Few Americans

Very few Negroes

No crackers at all

Will you survive in America

With your 20 cent habit?

Yo, 4-bag Jones, will you

Survive in the heat and fire

Of actual change? I doubt it

Will you survive, woman? Or will your nylon wig

Catch afire at midnight and light up Stirling Street

And your assprints on the pavement. Grease melting in this

Brother’s eyes, his profile shot up by a Simba thinking

coming around the corner was really Tony Curtis

a misguided brother, got his mind hanging out with Italians

The black future will

You can’t with the fat stomach between your ears

Scraping nickels out the inside of nigger daydreams

Very few Negroes… maybe no Red Negroes at all

The stiffbacked chalklady baptist, in blue lace

If she shrinks from blackness in front of the church

Following the wedding of the yellow robots

Will not survive. She is old anyway, and they’re moving

Her church in the wind

First Negroes to be invisible to Truth, 1944, Minnesota? No

Nothing of that will be anywhere

It will be burned clean

It might sink and steam up the sea. America might

And no Americans, very few Negroes, will get out

But the black man will survive America

His survival will mean the death of America

Survive Blackman! Survive Blackman! Survive Blackman!

(Black woman too)

Let us all survive, who need to OK?

And we wish each other luck!

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