By Button Poetry
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K McClendon, performing at Park Square Theater in St. Paul, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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this time imagine black as it has always
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been the total absorption of light and
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this time light means joy when I say I’m
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dressed in all black I want you to
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imagine your favorite memory of the Sun
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this time the black lives to tell the
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rest of the story and no white man
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washes it first I need you to understand
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black joy how spiritual it is how deep
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like back to Africa like how it is
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rooted in our melanin Sun God’s light
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worship we with sunset skin to make the
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most holy sky crack wide open every time
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we smile despite the white world’s best
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effort to drain the colour from our
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bodies I am done digging up Graves for
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poetry I deserve a heavy harvest black
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bodies be rich like the good wet dirt I
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mean I am a garden I am done burying
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things inside of me that won’t grow into
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a beautiful something and ain’t that joy
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and ain’t I black so don’t that make it
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mine and whole and absorbing everything
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the light touches
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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