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(Jerry Quickley) Dear Demetrius I have never seen water this beautiful They are going to make us go back And clear those villages tomorrow Sergeant makes them stand in the tide pools, then he... Sharks feed on blood and sin You could almost use their backs to walk across the bay My brother, I miss you and home in the worst way Guano and salt water and I'm so thirsty I miss you and home in the worst way Heather Pyre, Viola the User, Clyde Hannibal, Jimmy Jackson, Reverend Jamеs Reeb, Juliet Hampton Morning Jonathan Merrick Daniels, Vеrnon Donald, Reverend George Lee O'Neil Warren, Harry and Harriet Norman The n**** from down the street who ran to get my father but the police grabbed me when i was nine DJ Renegade, Patricia Smith King Thirty three and a third kicking out the jams on the Himalaya On Coney Island, Six Flag, Puerto Rican Bobby Deadra Fartey, Big Head the Bull Master That dude from the Barnes & Noble Cindy from Crazy Growth Every hippy I ever slept with Forte Mousse Soussa The last generation of free range kids Iggy Pop David Bowie's seventeenth drummer Both of them All one hundred and ninety seven of my lost poems Found inside of snatches of cracker jack pots and bisqit wrappers and bazooka Joe ? laid to ? Spothy, Sereah, the Baskerville Bridge, Big Head Platform diving to Jones Beach, night orchids in Mombasa (Mike Ladd) At the court room ?? and hearing Ghetto where the gypsies were not more than a year ago Another stop on the rails, at the World Bank's heart I'm grateful for the iron horse, it runs quiet over here At home a stranger in the hood that looks at it Sun and ink A Bronx Brooklyn inner satellite denser than a nova Cous cous ??? The patty store plastic bags floating with the pigeons The cold and drizzle here before never welcome anywhere It's low pressure, a far cry from Algeria ?? And not that far at all The canal color clones the sky The water dark with cadavers I've been to the source of the sin Both banks one can straddle But here? But here in Mega City 9 the sin is a monster And on October 17th 1961, the cops forced it to swallow possibly two hundred souls, everybody from Abdoullah ? And now in these past four years i have seen heads pushed into unmarked cars On the dark road of L'Republique, the planes and trains are veins sooner placed with microwaves And they cry emergency but all modders know these waves already Ancestors rode these waves already I holler back my own sleep soul sat very edge Standing top this tall building here and recite the code noir At the steel tower, steampunk empire Afro papion, Demetrius Afro papion, ?