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Sunday, July 24, 2005

HARRIET TUBMAN'S EMAIL 2 MASTER

(Subject: DirectionstotheNewPlace)


by Truth Thomas



go
down past glass
ground in your salt shaker

make
a right between
arsenic sweet tea swallows

i
am easy to find.
just take the fork where

mothers
kill their babies
to keep them safe from you

and
look for
windows growing shotguns.

Truth Thomas is an emerging musician and poet from Washington, DC. Musically, Thomas incorporates a wide range of musical expression from the African Diaspora and beyond to form his own personal artistic expression. In his poetry, he strives to marry crafts of both "page and stage" in an introspective style that is lyrical, spiritual and political.