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Vol. 19, No. 4: Winter 2013

Emmett’s Wallet

by Philip C. Kolin

“for smooth-talking Negro boys from Chicago more equal than separate . . .”

They said I had pictures
in my wallet, white girls
Gisele MacKenzie, Joan Collins.
It was immoral for a black boy
to tote these Hit Parade darlings
in his hip pocket, going juking
with their sweet white voices.

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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