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Ed Roberson
A kid rolls the window
the rest the way down
and spits at us.

what's the physics
forI am passed spat
at?past
but yet
every time I get
the cold stray
drop of somebody's

windshield wash spray
the passed returns.
you think it never reaches

you yet
the past
doesn't have to.you are reached
what's
the physics
for already
there in the future?
from the book MPH AND OTHER POEMS / Verge Books
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The Life of Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar  

"In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experiences of Black Americans at the turn of the 20th century. He was one of the first Black Americans to make a living as a writer and was seminal in the start of the New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance."

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