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#17
"evidence"

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if it were just
you, just me,
or as monk would
have it,

justice
would be served
but our sentence
is not so short

& our courtship's been so long—oh,
if it were just
the 2 of us, to start

a new life
together, but let the record
indicate,
the evidence

is piled up
all over town—
my older daughter
living here with me,

my younger
with her mother,
your older daughter
over with your mother

& the little one
holed up with you—
a chord
structure under

pinning whatever melody
or song we can make of it—
not just us, baby, but the fine
fine thing fate has made of us

—detroit
june 24, 1982

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from I Mean You, released November 16, 2020

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"Sinclair is an iconic figure of ‘60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the anti-racist White Panther Party"

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"John has taken the Blues, many Blues, many Blues singers, their words, their feeling, their lives, their conditions, the places and traces of where they was and is.

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