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A THE BEAimFUL BLACK TRUTH! Two Poets Recent visitors, Barrax, Baynes Asha feels... HERE COMES THE SUN Here comes the sun- hot spoiling your image as you trying to be cool in so much that we began to reveal naked minds that ain’t saying nothing except seclusion but to lay up on the campus grass and do nothing on C.P. time what you need is a self-winding watch. we have evolved from the My Concept of A Black Woman By Roy M. Swiney Fine Black Woman, what is my concept of you? My concept is one of delight My concept is upright My concept is very true Please let me talk to you Black Woman I think you are beautiful Because you are Black And you should be proud of the fact That it has been given to you An enticing ebony hue You should be strong because you Have laboured long And keep your breed here Oh, you Black ebony dear Be true to your Black man And he will understand That your are something good To cherish as he should You are my upmost desire My passion will never tire For ruby lips so sweet And a love that’s complete To be a fine Black woman You must be all woman And nothing else If I’m to have you for myself Stand by me when I’m disappointed Because little is present Show me respect as a Black man And I will be most pleasant Fine Black Woman I have talked to you And I hope you think my concept is just For to be a fine Black woman These things to me are a must Soul Is If the white man the winter invented nudity, then I would wear it doing nothing only to maintain the tradition Sunshine Is take it off take it in the spring- hopefully For Lovers off we shall remove take it all off our struggle Somehow from hibernation & Sunshine is For we was ali explode All Lovers waiting around it into the reality Sunshine is for lovers to of now Who love to sit and watch each terminate our song other of But if the winter Sunshine is for Mothers ain’t no sunshine ... was too cold Who love her children and some for to move, others the he«t to come the spring Sunshine is for kids down on us should be the Wo love to play and in the mud and burn right time- they dig our hot pants- if not. Sunshine is for everyone we make it funky we’ll air- To play, to sit, and even to run for the brothers condition that revolution Shirley Brown to concentrate on so that the seriousness of our present all may participate. Even though -Insurance - condition- we came here to (continued from page 1) as if they would educate ourselves concentrate as if they was serious given the benefit of the doubt hang in there brothers we are on your side- the dark side of your mind and you might -• > could think if your dope had not Stagnated your mind into a state of toal incapacitation and Since we’re all coming out to view the sun no longer to “get high” in for now we’ll just sit on the grass and major in ignorance- many of us are working on our Masters’- or in another sense should be The spring is ^ere- If you ain’t from Africa why you dig the heat? and before its’ all over the Greeks will have something to say- tit tit And 1 wonder if it will be the beginning of a new level of consciousness Soul is being with my friends on a rainy day and just listening to black moses by Isaac hayes. dreaming, scheming, nodding to the beat making me move and groove and scuffle my feet. This is soul. Soul is eating where i want, what i want and when i want, as long as it’s buttered cornbread, spiced cabbage, greasy porkchops and a few other things; such as chocolate cake topped with ice cream ... but oooooh can’t forget those collard greens! Yes, this is soul. Soul is knowing i got to dress bad and be on top, cause it’s the right thing if you know what i mean. wearing those blue jeans and rubber soled kicks, with a baby blue top patched with navy blue chick-chicks. Yeah, now this is soul. Soul is me and my afro looking all good ' styling downtown and frightening the white man as i thought it would, look at them stare at what i don’t know, ooops forgot to zip my pants must’ve been a show! but that’s alright i understand, for this is what having soul is all about man!!! Now that’s soul. by Brenda Truitt Two Lovers As I was walking through the park one day A squirrel was there, and he passed my way I didn’t pay too much attention to him Cause I was terribly lonely then My lover was in Viet Nam Doing his duty for Uncle Sam But soon he’ll be back again And we can be together then We’ll go places and do things Just like all other human beings Maybe we’ll get married and settle down Or maybe we’ll just roam the town These thoughts are lonely thoughts I think I’ll save them and mail them off When he receive them, he’ll be so proud He’ll say “I Love You” out aloud Shirley Brown expensive cash value policies with lots of extra-priced features. Companies doing a big business in college policies often set up special agents in college towns. They like to recruit as salesmen popular campus figures such as fraternity leaders, recently graduated star athletes, former coaches and even faculty members and administrators. One professor at Michigan State University is cited as reporting some students he interviewed didn’t know they were signing a contract committing them to buy insurance. Some though they were signing a medical form. Others thought they were getting the first year’s insurance free. All were being sued by the same insurance company. AU right! All right! You can have the damn raisef
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