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Kandahar: I saw the Americans like spiders in my mind

even before they bloodied prayer...

Marla of the Amtrak and more...

MARLA OF THE AMTRAK Marla sits alone in a space invisible where no one else will sit as though age is contagious and blackness rubs off...

AUNTIE CAT massa whip crack de day open but misery don’t skeer me; dey calls me Auntie Cat ‘cuz of de cat ‘o nine tails on my back from...

Baltimore Sketches: Attica she made a bed of cruelty wrapped in a house dress with big red ugly flowers --pillows torn and resistant,...