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In Memory of Radio Study Guide

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by Amiri Baraka
About 29 pages (8,750 words)
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Poem Text

Who has ever stopped to think of the divinity of Lamont Cranston?

(Only Jack Kerouac, that I know of: & me.

The rest of you probably had on WCBS and Kate

Smith,

Or something equally unattractive.)

What can I say?

It is better to have loved and lost

Than to put linoleum in your living rooms?

Am I a sage or something?

Mandrake's hypnotic gesture of the week?

(Remember, I do not have the healing powers of

Oral Roberts ...

I cannot, like F. J. Sheen, tell you how to get saved

& rich!

I cannot even order you to gaschamber satori like

Hitler or Goody Knight

& Love is an evil word.

Turn it backwards/see, what I mean?

An evol word. & besides

Who understands it?

I certainly wouldn't like to go out on that kind of

limb.

Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern &

his undersea folk.

At 11, Let's Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still

do, Thank God!

What was it he used to say (after the

transformation, when he was safe

& invisible & the unbelievers couldn't throw

 stones?) "Heh, heh, heh,

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

The Shadow knows."

O, yes he does

O, yes he does.

An evil word it is,

This Love.

This complete Poem Text contains 216 words. This study guide contains 8,750 words (approx. 29 pages at 300 words per page).

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