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Happy 100th birthday, James Baldwin!

Lord,

when you send the rain

think about it, please,

a little?

Do

not get carried away

by the sound of falling water,

the marvelous light

on the falling water.

I

am beneath that water.

It falls with great force

and the light

Blinds

me to the light.

by Anonymousreply 1August 3, 2024 11:51 AM

One of my favorite writers. He was not only a first-rate novelist but a masterful essayist, too. Left us way too soon. Goddamn cancer.

Here he is, eviscerating a Yale philosophy professor on the Dick Cavett Show:

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