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Black Poetry Post #10 - "My Brother is Homemade"

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My Brother Is Homemade - Sam Cornish

my brother is homemade
like he was the first real
black boy i ever knew

before Richard Wright
or James Baldwin found
black summers
he taught me how to drink at age
five and a half

& cleaned the streets
with bullies and stolen
bread and ice cream

he came into this
color thing lighter
than me
& to prove a point
grew darker
than most

Sam Cornish, Generations, Beacon Press, 1971

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