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FREEDOMWAYS THIRD QUARTER 1969 And not quite making it... How much I love him For he is me and I is he And we refuse to die Backed against the wall Of our shortcomings And have yet magic, black as me To move us through the night...31 Or a humorous, yet subtly biting dialogue between a white lady and domestic worker by Mari Evans: Mattie dear the box is full take whatever you like to eat... (an egg or soup ...there ain't no meat). there's endive there and cottage cheese... (whew if I had some black-eyed peas...) there's sardines on the shelves and such... but don't get my anchovies... they cost too much! (...Hope I lives till I get home I'm tired of eatin' what they eats in Rome...)32 And in Etheridge Knight's (a prisoner in a federal penitentiary) poem "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," the poet gives a fine portrayal of a fierce inmate who, like the character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was bold enough to defy the crippling institution's insane power over its patient criminals and thus bring some life into the institution. But 244