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Admonitions


Boys
I don't promise you nothing
but this what you pawn


I will redeem what you steal
I will conceal my private silence to
your public guilt, is all i got


Girls
First time a white man
opens his fly like a good thing
we'll just laugh, laugh real loud my
black women


Children
When they ask you
why is your mama so funny


Say
She is a poet
she don't have no sense

Written by Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)

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