From who look at me -- If you saw a negro lady -- Roman poem number thirteen -- I must become a menace to my enemies -- Poem about my rights -- A runaway li'l bit poem -- Poem at the midnight of my life -- Poem about process and progress -- Focus in real time -- It's hard to keep a clean shirt clean -- Last poem for a little while -- To be continued: -- Song of the law abiding citizen -- Letter to the local police -- Owed to Eminem -- Bombing of Baghdad -- Poem for Nana -- Ghazal at full moon -- Poem to take back the night -- To sing a song of Palestine -- First poem from Nicaragua libre: Teotecacinte -- Second poem from Nicaragua libre: war zone -- Third poem from Nicaragua libre: photograph of Managua -- Fourth poem from Nicaragua libre: report from the frontier -- A song of Sojourner Truth -- My sadness sits around me -- Getting down to get over -- Case in point -- Notes towards home -- Moving towards home -- A short note to my very critical and well-beloved friends and comrades -- Okay "negroes" -- What would I do white? -- May 27, 1971: no poem -- Grand army plaza -- On moral leadership as a political dilemma -- Home: January 29, 1984 -- Notes on the peanut -- Poem about police violence -- On the Black family -- Racial profile #3 -- 1978 -- A poem about intelligence for my brother and sisters -- "Haruko:" -- Poem on the death of Princess Diana -- Winter honey -- On a New Year's Eve -- 1977: poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer -- In the times of my heart -- Reception -- Poem for Mark -- Sunflower sonnet number two -- After all is said and done -- Shakespeare's 116th sonnet in Black English translation -- Exercise in quits -- "Why I became a pacifist" -- Poem for Siddhārtha Gautama of the Shākyas: the original Buddha -- Calling on all silent minorities -- Poem number two on Bell's theorem, or the new physicality of long distance love -- Memoranda toward the spring of seventy-nine -- Scenario revision #1 -- For Alice Walker (a summertime tanka) -- Free flight -- Not looking -- On the spirit of Mildred Jordan -- Meta-rhetoric -- Poem for South African women -- July 4, 1984: for Buck -- Something like a sonnet for Phillis Miracle Wheatley -- Poem about heartbreak that go on and on -- Poem for a young poet -- Democracy poem #1 -- Poem from taped testimony in the tradition of Bernhard Goetz -- On time tanka -- In defense of Christianity: sermon from the fount -- Poem on sexual hysteria and sexual hypocrisy -- Manifesto of the rubber gloves -- Kissing God goodbye -- These poems -- When I or else -- I guess it was my destiny to live so long -- Alla tha's all right, but -- Afterword.