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DUANNA

from DEMO by CARMEN

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Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousands
by the tens of thousands pound the fallow land
into new dust that
rising like a marvelous pollen will be
fertile
even as the first woman whispering
imagination to the trees around her made
for righteous fruit
from such deliberate defense of life
as no other still
will claim inferior to any other
safety in the world (poem by June Jordan)

you stood at the alter, we stood at the alter inside you,
you/we eat with our fingers, we/you eat with the promises provided
all the walls are caving in, ground rise up and pull us in
and it looks like snow
but when ashes land, they burn a hole.
walk down aisles with the men you run with,
still don't know who shot Duanna Johnson,
run ten miles with the men you hunt with,
who was her lover and what did they promise?

good you can see him in the hospital
but how many die with a cop as their witness?

promise, witness.

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from DEMO, track released August 10, 2011
Sample: June Jordan

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