Lucille Clifton

[in the inner city]

in the inner city
or
like we call it
home
we think a lot about uptown
and the silent nights
and the houses straight as
dead men
and the pastel lights
and we hang on to our no place
happy to be alive
and in the inner city
or
like we call it
home

—Lucille Clifton
From The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
BOA Editions, 2012
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