MY INNER CITY BLUES: Views from My Reality
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MY INNER CITY BLUES - Angela Waters
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First and above all we give thanks to God for allowing me to see and understand the reality that many go through every day in that ‘other America,’ and the world at large. Thanks to Fiona Lynch who patiently helped me to gather the process of self-publishing and for her encouragement to get my projects into the hands of the public. Thanks to Josephine Dokes-Rhodes, who kept me motivated and accountable. Thanks to my husband Rupert who while he has never read my works and doesn’t have a clue about what I have been through; loves and cares for me so well. Special thanks to my daughter and friend, Edna Herring-Cooper who has been a rock of mines and has for many years. Humble thanks to all those whose lives are depicted in this work for I am because we are; and we are because I am.
CONTENTS
My Inner City Blues
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
WHAT DO I SEE?
I, I JUST CAN’T
LET’S JUST CLOSE OUR EYES
THE LITTLE BOY AT THE LAUNDRAMAT
LOOKING AT THE BIRDS
OUR VILLAGE SAFE AND WHOLE
361 JOSEPH E LOWERY
RESPONSIBLE HEALTH
A LIE IS A LIE
WEST VIRGINIA AMERICA WATER
TO MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO HATE
THE LITTLE WHITE BOY
MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE
PLEDGE ALLEGIENCE? NO SIR REE!!!
BE ME
YOUR WORDS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR – Angela Waters
WHO AM I?
INTRODUCTION
Blue is said to be a calming color, a color that brings images of water and beautiful views of sky’s with clouds in happy shapes for many people. But blue also is the color of bruises, and poisons that take life away and ink from pens that give death sentences to people who may be innocent, falsely accused or one who is fighting the pain of depression and poverty. The cities like Atlanta where many of these poems were written has an inner city that is known as, ‘the Bluffs,’ where I lived, after graduating from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. Some of these poems were written in Charleston, West Virginia where the plight is basically the same. These poems reflect the poverty, pain and despair I witnessed and endured. If it had not been for the Lord on my side, and for me knowing how to pray; I may not have made it out.
These poems are able to provide a glimpse of the ills of this civilized land and perhaps more importantly they are able to hold the mirror to America and initiate meaningful, positive conversations that can help us to heal from the many forms of racism and injustices that has been systematically imposed on humans from many ethnic backgrounds by white supremacy being the dominant culture. I have written the poems so they are able to be read easily by using common language for the ‘Beloved Community’. It is my strong desire that you are blessed by them and that you will enjoy and share them with others.
At the beginning of a new year, I like to reflect upon what is going on in my immediate surroundings and in the macro view of the world at large. This is what I saw at the beginning of 2014, I started to change the year to make it more current but