Poetry

...A long-time student of our more advanced federal programs, she spent her summer preparing for the Job Corps and expanding her life-style in travel and precipitous marriage to a twenty-one-year-old sailor...

...sic) Norman Cousins' Confidence How can I be happy when I live with hate How can I be strong when my examples are so weak How can I help a people that are so meek How can I concetrate on life when I'm not sure of my own fate How can I love when there is no love and only Predjuice, self distruction and Hate...

...The black man my soul loved so gone now forever because he could not endure a small child's inquisitive stair at our simple wonder The black man my soul loved so gone now Gone forever my beautiful Black Ebony lover...

...Kiss me — Carress me Love me While I am Young and when we grow old and feeble frail and tired Smile at me hold my hand Remember my youth (sic) Condescension My love came unto me Quietly secretly Passionately and wicked window Peepers cried "cast him away" the white woman that lyes with a black man The White Woman that cares for a Black people "cast them away, How" they cried, "How can we teach our children to hate and dispise that Black soul If they see such love Before their eyes, Cast them a way Cast them away...

...Condescension represents a compression of a more elaborate work Mary has prepared for THE NEW REPUBLIC'S T. R. B. colAdulthoodery Children cry, But I have no Release I've grown to be an adult children play but I have no plesure I have grown to be an adult work toil struggle, To survive I have no release for I have grown to be an adult (sic) Oh, Oh, Tragedy The black man my Soul loved so gone now forever The black man my soul love so could not bare a white man's percing glare when We embraced The black man my soul loved so gone into the Barren cold cruel Fantesy of hate...

...sic) Ah, Youth...

...sic...