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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
Something you know but stand
know get along with
Like
Riding on top of the car through the windshield for his cue
entirely fictitious and true
That creeps across your path your evil ways
Like were yourself passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is boss
I to put a spell 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 grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it
Was it so it followed me down the street
Greeting everybody like the humor man
But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice
It was dat
Me across people into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding around me ice picks
You could see
But looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to auction
And let them chant the number and use an pointer to count your teeth
Remember Steppen
Remember Steppen Fetchit how we
An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and
the ice pick high off his head
Made ya laugh

I can see in the way of our selves
I can see in the way of our selves
That's why I say the things I do, you it
But its something to you
that job
This morning when you got there and it was
And the machines were yearning soft you
Yearning for that nigga to come and up his life
Standin' there bein' and broke and troubled

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was that God didn't exist"
And you me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I hear
I saw words in the white boy's rag
said he was gonna die poor and
That them dreams walk which you town
S'gonna die from work
There's on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit
And you believe it
Broke and all the time
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 us stumble
Something get us drunk from noise and to sadness
I see and feel something stalking us
Like and ugly thing floating at our back calling us
You see it and it too
But you say it got a right to exist just you and if God made it
But then we got to
And the light gon' down around us
Even we remember where the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
You seen what I see
The that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks
You see too but can't call its name

Ain't it too bad said
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy kind to his motha
Always say good to everybody on his way to work
But that last time before he got locked up and hurt, bad
I seen him 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 on him like it do in will
And he kept marching and faster away from us
And never even muttered a
Then the day he was gone
You wanna what
You know what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I something in the way of things"
And how the boys face that day just before they took him away
The is? in that face and remember now, remember all other faces
And all the places you've seen him or the sister with his child
up the street
Remember what you seen in your own mirror and for a second recognize
The face, your own
Straining to get out from the glass
Open your like you was gon' say somethin'
Close eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, don't you see something
Something cold and
Not invisible but blended with the shadow the old man
Squatting by the drug store at the
is head resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that smiled and the he went with

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