Atameros (John Beevers Poems)
The palace with revolving doors was mineAnd three of us went up its stepsTo the tall room whose walls were ...
The palace with revolving doors was mineAnd three of us went up its stepsTo the tall room whose walls were ...
If within the cruel Southland you have chanced to take a ride,You the Jim Crow cars have noticed, how they ...
Yes, I admit a grievance.I also boldly challenge you-Come stand where I once stood and fell!I dare say you will ...
My country, noble spectre of the past; Along thy rivers, and within thy vales, There breathes a deep-toned voice, that ...
You ask about these wrinkles, These wrinkles I have on my brow,If you'll give me your kind applause, sir, For ...
This star spangled banner country, Is styled as the "Land of Free;" And yet our race here suffers wrong, Mixed ...
i went to a movie showthe other evening in the cuffof a friends turned up trousersand saw the three little ...
Contented, he was lured from homeland;Free, he has been captive made;Though human, he was bound in chains andSold like beast ...
They would have lynched meHad I not been secretly hurried awayTo the jail at Peoria.And yet I was going peacefully ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
Hot digitty dog! Now, ain't it queer, I've been abroad for over a year; Seen a helluva lot since then, ...
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...
They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried away To the jail at Peoria. And yet I ...
Oh when I think of my long-suffering race, For weary centuries despised, oppressed, Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place ...
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