<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565010" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Father Is A Retired Magician</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(for ifa, p.t., & bisa)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my father is a retired magician<br>which accounts for my irregular behavior<br>everythin comes outta magic hats<br>or bottles wit no bottoms & parakeets<br>are as easy to get as a couple a rabbits<br>or 3 fifty cent pieces/ 1958</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my daddy retired from magic & took<br>up another trade cuz this friend of mine<br>from the 3rd grade asked to be made white <br>on the spot</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what cd any self-respectin colored american magician<br>do wit such a outlandish request/ cept<br>put all them razzamatazz hocus pocus zippity-do-dah<br>thingamajigs away cuz<br>colored chirren believin in magic<br>waz becomin politically dangerous for the race<br>& waznt nobody gonna be made white<br>on the spot just<br>from a clap of my daddy's hands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">& the reason i'm so peculiar's <br>cuz i been studyin up on my daddy's technique<br>& everythin i do is magic these days<br>& it's very colored<br>very now you see it/ now you<br>dont mess wit me<br> i come from a family of retired<br>sorcerers/ active houngans & pennyante fortune tellers<br>wit 41 million spirits critturs & celestial bodies <br>on our side<br> i'll listen to yr problems<br> help wit yr career yr lover yr wanderin spouse<br> make yr grandma's stay in heaven more gratifyin<br> ease yr mother thru menopause & show yr son<br> how to clean his room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">YES YES YES 3 wishes is all you get<br> scarlet ribbons for yr hair<br> benwa balls via hong kong<br> a miniature of machu picchu</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all things are possible<br>but aint no colored magician in her right mind<br>gonna make you white<br> i mean<br> this is blk magic<br>you lookin at<br> & i'm fixin you up good/ fixin you up good n colored<br>& you gonna be colored all yr life<br>& you gonna love it/ bein colored/ all yr life/ colored & love it<br>love it/ bein colored/<br>Spell #7 from Upnorth-Outwest Geechee Jibara Quik Magic Trance Manual for Technologically Stressed Third World People</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ntozake+Shange">Ntozake Shange</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=565010" data-title="My Father Is A Retired Magician de Ntozake Shange" data-description="(for ifa, p.t., & bisa) my father is a retired magician which accounts for my irregular behavior everythin comes outta magic hats or bottles wit no bottoms & parakeets are as easy to get as a couple a rabbits or 3 fifty cent pieces/ 1958 my dadd..."></div> </div> </div>

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