boys <br />i don't promise you nothing <br />but this <br />what you pawn <br />i will redeem <br />what you steal <br />i will conceal <br />my private silence to <br />your public guilt <br />is all i got <br /> <br />girls <br />first time a white man <br />opens his fly <br />like a good thing <br />we'll just laugh <br />laugh real loud my <br />black women <br /> <br />children <br />when they ask you <br />why is your mama so funny <br />say <br />she is a poet <br />she don't have no sense<br /><br />Lucille Clifton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/admonitions/
