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THE DISTANT DRUM
- Calvin C. Hernton
I am not a metaphor or symbol
This you hear is not the wind in the trees.
Nor a cat being maimed in the street
It is I who weep, laugh, feel pain or joy.
Speak this because I exist.
This is my voice
These words are my words, my mouth
Speaks them, my hand writes.
I am a poet.
It is my fist beating
Against your ear.
from �Medicine Man (Reed, Cannon & Johnson, 1976).
Copyright @1976 by Calvin Hernton.
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