Here's one of the poems I read at 100 Thousand Poets for Change in Pembroke Pines, Florida
Letter from
Marcus Garvey
London, 9 June
1940
When I was in the Atlanta Federal Prison
I chanted through the silence,
"Keep cool,
keep cool," For I didn't want to
see twisted
bodies ripening on the flowering
dogwood.
Or when I emerged from the caverns
of the Spanish Town District Prison,
the children hurled stones at my head,
like I was some lame...
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