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The f/ Amiri Baraka

Something in the Way of (In Town)

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

I know things you know and nothing you don't
'cept I saw something in the way of
grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me the street
Greeting like the good humor man
But an they got the taste of humor but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking people into the houses
And not seeing the beings around me with ice picks
You see them
But they like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to your teeth
Remember Fetchit
Remember Steppen how we laughed
An all your Sunday school images giving and giggling
the ice pick 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 something to you
that job
This morning you got there and it was quiet
And the machines yearning soft behind you
Yearning for that nigga to come and up his life
Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and

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 I hear things
I saw words in the boy's lying rag
said he was gonna die poor and
That them dreams which you 'cross town
S'gonna die over work
There's garbage on the street that's you you ain't shit
And you believe it
Broke and all the time
You some of the words but they ain't the right ones
Your back on but ain't nothin' you can see
But I see something in the way of
Something to make us
Something get us drunk noise and addicted to sadness
I see something and feel stalking us
Like and thing floating at our back 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 we got to argue
And the light gon' down around us
Even though we where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the squinting at us through the cage
You what I see too?
The smile that ain't a but teeth flying against our necks
You see something too but call its name

Ain't it too bad 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 last time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' toward his and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't say hello
But I knew he'd seen
Something in the way of things it worked on him like it do in will
And he marching faster and faster away from us
And never muttered a word
Then the day he was gone
You wanna know
You wanna what I'm talkin' about
"I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before they him away
The is? in face and remember now, remember all them other faces
And all the many places seen him or the sister with his child
Wandering up the
Remember what you seen in own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, own face
to get out from behind the glass
Open your mouth like you was gon' say
Close eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, you see something else
Something and ugly
Not invisible but blended the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug store at the
With is head resting uneasily on his folded
And the boy smiled and the girl he went with

And in my too
A waving splitting them 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 something
I something
And you it too
You it too
You just can't call it's name name name name name name