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    i got on my knees for him
 
   in the darkened ruined stained
 
    stairwell he had a badge on
 
    he said he would take me in
 
    he took my womanhood
 
    away from me
 
    i told ma he
 
    was just a mf
 
    in the same stairway
 
    where that cop got
 
    kilt and they
 
    had to let the young
 
    man (gangster) go
 
    theirs was no evidence
 
    said the lone black man
 
    on the jury who
 
    had been mis-arrested
 
    befo my boyfriend said
 
    a cop kilt that cop
 
    chasing those young boys
 
    pressing their own lives
 
    for some ten dollar rock
 
    got on my knees or him
 
    brenda watched the kids
 
    he had a badge on he would
 
    let me go this old
 
    cop said they got a new
 
    program now experimental
 
    teaching humanities, plato
 
    and stuff to a very
 
    small group of us through it
 
    maybe we learn to read and
 
    find out what the
 
    festering was befo my
 
    boyfriend won't let me
 
    get on my knees for him
 
    he said it too unnatural
 
    for him make him feel strange
 
    they supposed to destroy
 
    those projects anyway he
 
    said places where they
 
    stacked all the black po
 
    concentrated feeling of
 
    an open wound of long
 
    time ago
 
 
 
    i got on my knees
 
    for him befo they took
 
    history maybe i
 
    pry open a
 
    different kind of womanhood he
 
    took from me sling
 
    a new charm ma i'm
 
    going to learn
 
    evelyn wood dynamics that
 
    my brother taught next
 
    to the gun he
 
    had a badge on
 
    i got on my knees ma

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