A Poem for My Baby Brother Who Has Gone Away to School and is On His Own for the First Time in His Life

By Karl Anderson / March 1, 1975

Faces of two Black children

Lucious Hightower

Cover for Southern Exposure's Southern Black Utterances Today cover featuring a woodcut print of a Black man's face gazing upward, by Atlanta artist Lucious Hightower

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.

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