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Pat Parker
Born
in Houston, Texas, The United States
January 20, 1944
Died
June 19, 1989
Website
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Movement in Black
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published
1978
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9 editions
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The Complete Works of Pat Parker (Sinister Wisdom 102)
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Jonestown and Other Madness
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published
1985
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4 editions
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Womanslaughter
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published
1978
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Pit Stop
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published
1975
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Child of Myself
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published
1972
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Sister love
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Άγρυπνη να επιθυμώ
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Strong: Three Poems
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published
2015
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Αγάπη, Δικαιοσύνη, Ελευθερία
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“Sunshine
If it were possible
to place you in my brain
to let you roam around
in and out
my thought waves
you would never
have to ask
why do you love me?
This morning as you slept
I wanted to kiss you awake
say I love you till your brain
smiled and nodded yes
this woman does love me.
Each day the list grows
filled with the things that are you
things that make my heart jump
yet words would sound strange
become corny in utterance.
In the morning when I wake
I don’t look out my window
to see if the sun is shining.
I turn to you instead.”
―
If it were possible
to place you in my brain
to let you roam around
in and out
my thought waves
you would never
have to ask
why do you love me?
This morning as you slept
I wanted to kiss you awake
say I love you till your brain
smiled and nodded yes
this woman does love me.
Each day the list grows
filled with the things that are you
things that make my heart jump
yet words would sound strange
become corny in utterance.
In the morning when I wake
I don’t look out my window
to see if the sun is shining.
I turn to you instead.”
―
“If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to to say to one of them, 'No, you stay home tonight, you won't be welcome,' because I'm going to an all-white party where I can be gay, but not Black. Or I'm going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me. The day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution.”
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―
“Fact is, blatant heterosexuals
are all over the place.
Supermarkets, movies, on your job,
in church, in books, on television
every day and night, every place -
even in gay bars.
& they want gay men & women
to go hide in the closets -
So to you straight folks
i say - Sure, i'll go
if you go too
but i'm polite
so - after you.”
― The Complete Works of Pat Parker
are all over the place.
Supermarkets, movies, on your job,
in church, in books, on television
every day and night, every place -
even in gay bars.
& they want gay men & women
to go hide in the closets -
So to you straight folks
i say - Sure, i'll go
if you go too
but i'm polite
so - after you.”
― The Complete Works of Pat Parker
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