daydreaming w/ Bob Arnold
The above is a review of the exhibit
concentrating on Georgiana Houghton
Hilma Af Klint and Emma Kunz,
whose names also make it onto
the front cover of the book —
yet, strangely, Harry Smith
and John Whitney and
James Whitney are
also showcased in the book
with little headline benefit.
The guys get to see how neglect feels.
(Harry knows)
It remains an excellent catalogue.
____________________________
Hirmer, 2018
Yellow Girl Blues
for Jane King
My mama she done told me
she tell me every day
no mind your skin is yellow
you're a nigger anyway.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues
I walking on the muddy road
in my sampata shoes.
So I grew up a nigger
please check on my behind,
my mouth, my nose, my curly
hair— I'm glad to know my kind.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I walking on the muddy road
in my sampata shoes.
And I go to America
and join in all the fights
sit in and demonstrate
and go to jail for Civil Rights.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I walk through so much macca
there's holes in all my shoes.
Dr King say it don't matter
he say we all is one —
the hose don't know the difference
nor the truncheon, nor the gun.
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I feel the firewater
as it soak in through my shoes.
Now I come north to Canada
my story it is true
they look me in my face and say
"White woman, who is you?"
Yellow girl blues
yellow girl blues.
I walking in the macca still
and my own take away my shoes.
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A Fierce Green Place
New and Selected Poems
New Directions, 2022
March 20, 1942 (Fargo, N.D.) ~ NY. 2022
Another Thing That Annoys Me
The spelling of 40. We have four and fourteen, and then, for
no reason I know of, the u is dropped and we're left with forty,
not to mention the schizophrenic forty-four. Most annoying, as
Sei Shōnagon would say.
__________________
Ron Padgett
Dot
2022
photograph ~ Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
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