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POEM OF THE MONTH, October 2005 |
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Written by Mari Evans
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Friday, 30 September 2005 |
Status Symbol
i
Have Arrived
i
am the
New Negro
i
am the result of
President Lincoln
World War I
and Paris
the
Red Ball Express
white drinking fountains
sitdowns and
sit-ins
Federal Troops
Marches on Washington
and
prayer meetings . . .
today
They hired me
it
is a status
job . . .
along
with my papers
They
gave me my
Status Symbol
the
key
to the
White . . .Locked . . .
John
(source: Adoff, A & B Andrews (eds), “I am the Darker Brother: an
anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans”, NY: MacMillian (1968)
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