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Vietnam #4
by Clarence Major


a cat said
on the corner
the other day
dig man

how come so many
of us
niggers

are dying over there
in that white
man's war

they say more of us are dying

than them peckerwoods
& it just
don't make sense

unless it's true
that the honkeys

are trying to kill us out
with the same stone

they killing them other cats
with

you know, he said
two birds with one stone





Vietnam
by Clarence Major


he was just back
from the war
said man they got
whites

over there now
fighting
us

and blacks over there
too

fighting us

and we can't tell
our whites
from the others

nor our blacks
from the others

& everybody
is just killing

& killing
like crazy


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