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Poem By Ishmael Reed (1978)

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POEM BY ISHMAEL REED CITATION Reed, Ishmael. A Secretary to the Spirits. New York: NOK Publishers, 1978. Foolology Shaken by his bad press, the wolf presses north, leaving caribou to the fox, Raven, the snow player gets his before buzzards with bright red collars move in to dine near the bottom of a long scavenger line This poem is about a skunk, no rather about a man, who though not of the skunk family uses his round-eye the way skunks do After he eats, his friends eat He is a fool and his friends are fools but sometimes it's hard to tell who is the biggest fool this fool or his fool friends By the time they catch us we're not there We crows Nobody's ever seen a dead crow on the highway First moral: Don't do business with people for whom April first is an important date they will use your bank balance to buy eight thousand pies, tunics, ballet slippers with bells and a mail order lake in the middle of a desert for splash parties Second moral: Before you can spot the fools in others you must rid yourself of the fool in you You can tell a fool by his big mouth
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Poem By Ishmael Reed (1978)

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POEM BY ISHMAEL REED CITATION Reed, Ishmael. A Secretary to the Spirits. New York: NOK Publishers, 1978. Foolology Shaken by his bad press, the wolf presses north, leaving caribou to the fox, Raven, the snow player gets his before buzzards with bright red collars move in to dine near the bottom of a long scavenger line This poem is about a skunk, no rather about a man, who though not of the skunk family uses his round-eye the way skunks do After he eats, his friends eat He is a fool and his friends are fools but sometimes it's hard to tell who is the biggest fool this fool or his fool friends By the time they catch us we're not there We crows Nobody's ever seen a dead crow on the highway First moral: Don't do business with people for whom April first is an important date they will use your bank balance to buy eight thousand pies, tunics, ballet slippers with bells and a mail order lake in the middle of a desert for splash parties Second moral: Before you can spot the fools in others you must rid yourself of the fool in you You can tell a fool by his big mouth
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM