A Poem for My Baby Brother Who Has Gone Away to School and is On His Own for the First Time in His Life
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This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 3 No. 1, "Southern Black Utterances Today." Find more from that issue here.
Baby brother,
keep an eye
on your mind,
OR ELSE
They'll hide it
from you.