The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 138, Issue 3Yale Literary Society, 1969 |
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... LISTEN AND LEARN , BEHAVE NICER . " BUT WHY ARE THEY WISER THAN I ? SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE OLDER ? YOUR GENERATION MADE TWO WORLD WARS . WORSE YET , CAME THE ATOM BOMB GREAT , RACE - RIOTS , GANG MURDER , SEX NOVELS BLARE . THEN YOU ...
... LISTEN AND LEARN , BEHAVE NICER . " BUT WHY ARE THEY WISER THAN I ? SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE OLDER ? YOUR GENERATION MADE TWO WORLD WARS . WORSE YET , CAME THE ATOM BOMB GREAT , RACE - RIOTS , GANG MURDER , SEX NOVELS BLARE . THEN YOU ...
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... the hard facts of reality . I could talk to the brother I could talk to the sisters I could listen to the pigs unk ! but I won't . I'll close my eyes , stop up my ears I sleep , I sleep Black Man O Black Man We've come quite a ways 16.
... the hard facts of reality . I could talk to the brother I could talk to the sisters I could listen to the pigs unk ! but I won't . I'll close my eyes , stop up my ears I sleep , I sleep Black Man O Black Man We've come quite a ways 16.
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... listen you are too busy trying to be an in - di - vidual You won't listen ( or some other obscenity ) ( do you hate your - self that much ? ) Maybe . Maybe ... you can't listen you deserve him . P.S. If you stand with the enemy you are ...
... listen you are too busy trying to be an in - di - vidual You won't listen ( or some other obscenity ) ( do you hate your - self that much ? ) Maybe . Maybe ... you can't listen you deserve him . P.S. If you stand with the enemy you are ...
Contents
Black Writing if it is Not Going to Dis feature containing an explanation and examples | 4 |
Poem John Williams The Lit was fortunate to obtain a short story from | 15 |
Poem Houston Baker Sopko a writer from Bridgeport had submitted | 22 |
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