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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 will quit and won't start
Something you know but can't
Can't know get along
Like
Riding on top of the car peering through the for his cue
Something fictitious and true
That creeps across your path hallowing your ways
Like they yourself passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is boss
I tried to put a spell on him but his is illiterate

I know you know and nothing 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 funny it followed me down the
Greeting everybody like the good 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 crowding around me with ice picks
You see them
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your
Looked important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Remember Steppen
Remember Fetchit how we laughed
An all Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice high off his head
ya laugh anyway

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

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was proof that the do"
But still, its like I see I hear things
I saw in the white boy's lying rag
he was gonna die poor and frustrated
That them dreams walk you 'cross town
die from over work
There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't
And you believe it
and mistaken all the time
You know some of the words but they the right ones
cable back 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 something and something stalking us
Like and ugly 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 then we got to
And the gon' come down around us
Even though we where the (light or mic??) is
the Negro squinting at us through the cage
You what I see too?
The smile that ain't a smile but teeth against our necks
You see something too but call its name

Ain't it too bad y'all
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy kind to his motha
Always say good morning to on his way to work
But that last time before he got locked up and hurt, bad
I seen him walkin' toward his house and he smiling
And he didn't even say
But I knew he'd seen
Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in
And he kept faster and faster away from us
And never even a word
the next day he was gone
You wanna what
You wanna what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I seen in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day before they took him away
The is? in that face and remember now, all them other faces
And all the many places seen him or the sister with his child
up the street
Remember you seen in your 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 say somethin'
Close your eyes and what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, don't you see something
Something cold and
Not invisible but with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
by the drug store at the corner
With is head resting on his folded arms
And the boy smiled and the girl he went with

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

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