THE PRESENT IS A DANGEROUS | PLACE TO LIVE | by | KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE | Third World Press Chicago
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Copyright © 1974 by Keorapetse Kgositsile | All Rights Reserved
[1] For all those brothers and sisters | Who struggled to look at the present | Straight in its dangerous face | And faced it in attempts to change it | And to the memory of: | Conrad Kent Rivers, Eric Dolphy, Henry Dumas | Whose still voices are out there | Hammered into an area of depthoffeeling | In the whirlwind with Coleman Hawkins
[2] And Jean Toomer. They still reed and rite | Right here where they knew that "The Dixie Pike | Has grown from a goat path in Africa."
The Present is a Dangerous Place to Live (1974 Third World Press edition)
1974 edition, published by Third World Press
poem by Keorapetse Kgositsile