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about him and I had to write about Sarah, and I would write about you- you see- I have to- you see my problem is to contain and to restrain
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and to- and I just love some of my cliches, you know I just don't want to throw them away.
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{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Margaret if you don't mind, may I take the liberty to read a couple of your poems?
{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
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Please do
{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
Alright, this one is called "This is an African Worm"
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This is an African worm, but then a worm in any land is still a worm
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It will not stride, run, stand up before the flutter bys?
{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
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Yes
{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
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Okay
{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
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Yes, flutter by, yes
{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
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Right
{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
Uh huh
{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
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Butterflies who have passed their worm-like state
{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
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[laughs]
{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}
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It must keep low, not lift its head.
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I've had the dread experience, I know.
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A worm can do nothing but crawl. Crawl and wait.
{SPEAKER name="Margaret Danner"}
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Thank you very much.
{SPEAKER name="Sarah Fabio"}

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Yesterday we had the experience of having a mural uh- painted on a wall and a dedication to the mural. And one of your poems, just as our African ancestors did is in honor of one of the early mural walls in Chicago, the OBAC wall in the ghetto. 1967.
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None have gained a loftier recognition the medium of the arts from 400 B.C. than we chrome-tones, we blacks.
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And here in Chicago, about 5 blocks from where I was born where, again, creating portraits of other blacks we respect on a wall of a building that should long ago have experienced rejection.
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Finally, blacks are being reawakened to reclaim another spark in our incomparable heritage.
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We enfold again and hold and enhance and paint with all the colours of the rain-


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