Position - Léon Damas

For  J.D.

The days themselves

have taken on the shape

of African masks

No one is doing good - Prince Koloni

Jah will put them to shame for they don't call on Jah

They do not call on Jah name

The Blues - Léon Damas

Give back my black dolls

that they can dispel

the image of wan whores

selling love and promenading

on the boulevard of my ennui

They Came Tonight - Léon Damas

They came the night the
tom
tom
spun from
rhythm
to
rhythm

Hiccups - Léon Damas

I gulp down seven drinks of water
several times a day
and all in vain
instinctively
like the criminal to the crime
my childhood returns
in a rousing fit of hiccups