University of Massachusetts Boston - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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fi X. I .' Photos by Mark Jarret Chavous iv and Julie Ahern .L 1-, 111-1-1 w l N 4 N

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Blackman in a Browns tone He returns from a party where he stood in the corner Camouflaged by the potted plants. You seem to look natural standing there. lust like a savage She told him. And he walked out with not so much as a word of thanks to his host. He walks home black and suspect. Someone for the police to check out and squalk identification over the transistor. lt 's okay charlie he 's a local nigger Occasionally he would call me to come to the city and compare nightmares. Singled, alone, caught in the wide-eyed Well-read community of brownstones. The odors of the street outside, The bleached walls that surround us. The constant wondering of who we are. His neighbor comes over to tell her problems Flirting her white body a little longer than she should, her eyes making suggestion. Hoping his bed will suffice for plantation hay. lt 's not like I don 't have a boyfriend. And she quickly excuses herself We step out into the midnight to smoke a joint on the fire escape. He says he has had enough of it and he jumps over in a blinding blur. T. I. Anderson

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Some UMB Students on an Outing with Prof. Rene Arb at the Museum of Fine Arts