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The f/ Amiri Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

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in the way of things
Something that quit and won't start
you know but can't stand
Can't get along with
Like
Riding on top of the car peering the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and
That across your path hallowing your evil ways
Like they were passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is your
I tried to put a on him but his spirit is illiterate

I know things you know and you don't know
'cept I saw in the way of things
Something at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me the street
Greeting everybody like the humor man
But an got the taste of good humor but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking people into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding me with ice picks
You could see
But looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count teeth
Remember Steppen
Remember Steppen Fetchit how we
An all your Sunday images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice high off his head
Made ya anyway

I can see something in the way of our
I can see something in the way of our
why I say the things I do, you know it
But its else to you
Like job
This morning you got there and it was quiet
And the machines yearning soft behind you
for that nigga to come and give up his life
Standin' there dissed and broke and troubled

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was proof the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I things
I saw in the white boy's lying rag
he was gonna die poor and frustrated
That them dreams walk you 'cross town
S'gonna die over work
There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you shit
And you believe it
Broke and mistaken all the
You know some of the words but they ain't the right
Your cable on but ain't nothin' you can see
But I see in the way of things
Something to make us
Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to
I see something and feel something us
Like and ugly thing floating at our calling us names
You see it and it too
But you say it got a to exist just like you and if God made it
But then we got to
And the light come down around us
Even we remember where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
You what I see too?
The smile that ain't a smile but flying against our necks
You see something too but can't its name

it too bad y'all said
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy kind to his motha
say good morning to everybody on his way to work
But that time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't say hello
But I knew he'd seen
Something in the way of things that it worked on him it do in will
And he kept marching and faster away from us
And even muttered a word
the next day he was gone
You wanna know
You know what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before took him away
The is? in that face and remember now, remember all them faces
And all the places you've seen him or the sister with his child
Wandering up the
Remember what you seen in your own mirror and for a second recognize
The face, your own
to get out from behind the glass
Open your mouth like you was say somethin'
Close your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel
Now, don't you see something
Something and ugly
Not but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the store at the corner
With is resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that smiled and the girl he with

And in my too
A waving craziness splitting into the jet stream of a black bird
Wit his ass on
Or the solomNOTness of where we go to we gonna be happy

I seen
I SEEN
And you it too
You it too
You just can't call name name name name name name name