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    Masked Man, Black
    Masked Man, Black
    Masked Man, Black
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    Masked Man, Black

    By Frank X Walker

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    "We all wear masks. There are people with whom we can take our masks off and speak from the heart. Professor Walker is an expert in masks, or personas. And he well knows that sometimes masks let us speak deep truths about the world. He also knows masks sometimes protect us, sometimes keep us from ourselves, and sometimes cause us pain. Paul Dunb

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAccents Publishing, LLC
    Release dateOct 15, 2020
    ISBN9781936628704
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      Masked Man, Black - Frank X Walker

      Copyright © 2020 by Frank X Walker

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      Accents Publishing

      Editor: Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

      Cover Image: Frank X Walker, Fit the description, Acrylic on Canvas, 1992

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020947066

      ISBN: 978-1-936628-59-9

      ISBN: 978-1-936628-70-4 (e-book)

      First Edition

      Accents Publishing is an independent press for brilliant voices. For a catalog of current and upcoming titles, please visit us on the Web at

      www.accents-publishing.com

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Silver Linings

      Commencement 2020

      The Walking Dead

      If There Was No More Anything …

      Bad Medicine

      Half the Treasure I Won …

      Baptism by Dirt

      To the Ten-Year-Old Kid on a Ventilator

      Before Hashtags

      Old-School Math

      On Mother’s Day

      Severe Weather Warning

      B.C.

      Peculiar

      Hairline Fracture

      Mendacity

      Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben & Aunt Jemima

      Complicit, at Most

      To the White Women Who Formed a Line …

      The End of Sporting

      Read a Book, Then Ask What You Can Do

      Offensive Captain

      Qualified Immunity

      Twelve Things Amy Believed She Knew

      Sleight of Hand

      Ode to Meat Packers

      Easter Prayer, 2020 A.C.

      Fake News?

      Mamasorri School

      I’m Being Sarcastic

      Combustibles

      Deejay Battle

      Y’all Say I Do, We Say Black Lives Matter

      The Faithful

      A New Word Order

      Colonizer-13

      Dirty Dozen

      Masked Man, Black

      To the Man Who Wore a Klan Hood to the Grocery Store …

      To the Man Spewing Spit and Vitriol in the Trooper’s Face …

      Hypocrites and Oaths

      Want Ads

      Season Ticket Holders

      Too Soon?

      Exodus?

      Stormy Forecast

      A Joyful Noise

      The Apprenticeship Wreck

      Citius, Altius, Fortius, A.C.

      Scientific Doubt

      Like Moby-Dick, but Bigger

      Six Feet Under, Six Apart

      Revisionist History

      Remember to Breathe

      O Death

      Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler

      2020 Vision

      Corona Love

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      INTRODUCTION

      We wear the mask that grins and lies,

      It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

      This debt we pay to human guile;

      With torn and bleeding hearts we smile

      —Paul Lawrence Dunbar

      Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,

      Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

      —Claude McKay

      In the tradition of bearing witness, Frank X Walker’s Masked Man, Black moves us through the many phases of this era marked by a global health crisis and uprisings for racial justice. With echoes of Claude McKay’s If We Must Die, a sonnet written in the time of pandemic and in response to the infamous Red Summer which saw white supremacist violence perpetrated against Black communities across the United States, Walker connects us to a painful past and illustrates its links to our present. Never leaving us in despair, anger, or anguish, however, the poems help us to reflect, hope, and join in a demand for a different world. This collection is a time capsule, but not one that we ever want to bury away in the backyard. Rather, it beckons us to open it again and again as we

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