His Own Where by June Jordan

Author:June Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 2010-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

The highway like a Funny House. You don’t know when something will open at you let you off or what. Drive north past the storybook apartment houses. People dress up for the movies. Dress down to walk the dog. Drive by below the marble bullshit memory of Prez Grant.

Drive by these Bronxlike Mountainside apartments. Look like highrise outhouse and no door. No tree. Drive across the narrow northern edge of the Manhattan secret-island (people use it like the island part’s a secret part). Under a tunnel under eight different intersecting streets under skyscraping (more) apartments on top of George Washington Bridge and curve onto the East Side Drive. The really river drive by Harlem. Brick projects. Brick new private terracing apartments glovelights and concrete colored intermix construction bricks. Drive quiet by the river. Harlem bridges start to sway out the windshield.

Drive toward the crowded power down the East Side Drive. And Buddy just be Buddy practicing for the long trip up to Angela.

About the level of 123d Street the Drive spread wider than it was and Buddy tense a bit like a pilot in a mission cockpit.

Check the gauges. Check the rearview mir—ror. Check the sideview mirror. Watch them cars ahead. The radio be playing loud and nice.

Wrapped up my money

and I couldn’t find my way.

So I changed them bills to silver

And I rolled another game

so two could play

so two could pay.

And things ain’t never been the same

since then

since when you came

you blew my lonely game with

love like a nickel and a dime

making changes all the time

love like a nickel love like a dime

making changes all the time.

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