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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 your evil 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 things you know and nothing you don't know
'cept I saw in the way of things
Something grinning at me and I to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me the street
Greeting everybody the good humor man
But an got the taste of good humor but no ice cream
It was dat
Me talking across people 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 important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your
Steppen Fetchit
Remember Steppen how we laughed
An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and
With the ice pick off his head
Made ya laugh

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

My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was that God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I things
I saw in the white boy's lying rag
said he was die poor and frustrated
them dreams walk which you 'cross town
S'gonna die from work
There's garbage on the street that's 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 ones
Your cable back on but nothin' you can see
But I see something in the way of
Something to make us
Something get us drunk from and addicted to sadness
I see something and feel stalking us
Like and ugly thing floating at our back us names
You see it and it too
But you say it got a right to exist just like you and if God it
But then we got to
And the light gon' come down us
Even though we remember the (light or mic??) is
Remember the Negro squinting at us through the
You seen what I see
The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our
You see something too but can't call its

Ain't it too bad y'all
it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his motha
Always say good to everybody on his way to work
But that time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't say hello
But I he'd seen something
Something in the way of that it worked on him like it do in will
And he kept marching faster and faster from us
And never even a word
the next day he was gone
You wanna know
You wanna know what I'm talkin'
"I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just they took 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
up the street
Remember what you in your own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, own face
to get out from behind the glass
Open mouth like you was gon' say somethin'
Close your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel
Now, don't you see else
Something cold and
Not but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the store at the corner
is head resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that and the girl he went with

And in my too
A waving craziness 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 SEEN
And you it too
You it too
You just can't call it's name name name name name name