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PAINT IT BLACK Picture of man of nearly thirty Who seems twice as old With clothes torn and dirty Give him a job, shining shoes Or cleaning out toilets with bus station crews Give him six childrem with nithing to eat Expose them to life in a Ghetto street Tie an old rag around his wise head And a woman pregnant lying in bed Stuff them all in a Harlem house And tell them how bad Things are down South | Gil Scott-Henderson, Small Talk At 125th and Lenox New York City, 1970 |