of the furious <br /> <br />Who take Today and jerk it out of joint <br />have made new underpinnings and a Head. <br /> <br />Blacktime is time for chimeful <br />poemhood <br />but they decree a <br />jagged chiming now. <br /> <br />If there are flowers flowers <br />must come out to the road. Rowdy!— <br />knowing where wheels and people are, <br />knowing where whips and screams are, <br />knowing where deaths are, where the kind kills are. <br /> <br />As for that other kind of kindness, <br />if there is milk it must be mindful. <br />The milkofhumankindness must be mindful <br />as wily wines. <br />Must be fine fury. <br />Must be mega, must be main. <br /> <br />Taking Today (to jerk it out of joint) <br />the hardheroic maim the <br />leechlike-as-usual who use, <br />adhere to, carp, and harm. <br /> <br />And they await, <br />across the Changes and the spiraling dead, <br />our Black revival, our Black vinegar, <br />our hands, and our hot blood.<br /><br />Gwendolyn Brooks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/young-afrikans/
