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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 will quit and won't start
Something you know but stand
Can't know get along
death
Riding on top of the car through the windshield for his cue
Something fictitious and true
That creeps across your path hallowing your ways
Like they were passing 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 know
I saw something in the way of things
Something at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it me down the street
Greeting everybody the good humor man
But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice
It was dat
Me talking across 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 funeral
Looked like important on the way to your auction
And let them the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Steppen Fetchit
Remember Fetchit how we laughed
An all your Sunday images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick high off his
ya laugh anyway

I can see in the way of our selves
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 were 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 sayin' "that was proof that God didn't exist"
And you me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I things
I saw words in the boy's lying rag
he was gonna die poor and frustrated
That them dreams which you 'cross town
S'gonna die from over
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 ain't the ones
Your 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 and addicted to sadness
I see something and something stalking us
Like and ugly thing floating at our calling us names
You see it and it too
But you say it got a right to just like you and if God made it
But we got to argue
And the light gon' come around us
Even though we remember the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro at us through the cage
You seen I see too?
The that ain't a smile 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 always to his motha
Always say morning to everybody on his way to work
But that last time before he got up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' toward his and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't even say
But I knew seen something
Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in
And he kept marching faster and faster away us
And never even a word
Then the next day he was
You wanna know
You know what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I seen in the way of things"
And how the boys face that day just before they took him away
The is? in that and remember now, remember all them other faces
And all the many places you've seen him or the sister with his
up the street
Remember you seen in your own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, your own
Straining to get out 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
cold and ugly
Not invisible but with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug at the corner
With is resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that smiled and the 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