And here with this consciousness this stubbornness this same old black I shall return to the same generic substance the same body the same parents the same friends the same conditions to a world that has not changed to a neighborhood similar to the old one before and I shall grow as before in the head out of the body disconnected unconnected and afraid to love and unloving and the same luck shall befall me and I shall stand frozen as before waiting for the miracle that shall never occur from the outside
Irwin R. Shaw - November 6th 1988
And here with this consciousness
this stubbornness
this same old black
I shall return
to the same generic substance
the same body
the same parents
the same friends
the same conditions
to a world that has not changed
to a neighborhood
similar to the old one before
and I shall grow as before
in the head
out of the body
disconnected
unconnected
and afraid to love
and unloving
and the same luck
shall befall me
and I shall stand
frozen as before
waiting for the miracle
that shall never occur from the outside