Theodore H. Harris, Vetoed Dreams, collage, 1995.

I Got Your Back

For every single mother making $5.25
So her family can survive:

For the brothas who get high
As a way of getting by:

I got your back.

I got your back.

For the children born black
Who think nobody has their back:

I got your back.

-- Clayton Powell

from his chapbook, Dead on Arrival,
published by Small Poetry Press, 2000; PO box 5342, Concord, CA 94524.)

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