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Poems by Tanure Ojaide University of North Carolina-Charlotte The Minstrel is a Refugee Before he realizes it, the minstrel is a refugee without even a pen in the pocket for possession; with neither minutes nor paper to scribble the blues he must sing to carry along the memory of the shrew that battered him into flight. Every property too ponderous to carry, the refugee must travel light in flight— it’s only life that he carries simply without knowing its significance that counts. The minstrel in a black Indian file evacuates the death-taunting city— he has jumped from the roof into a boat; no stunt that saves life is ever strange. The minstrel seeks refuge in the kingdom where the house of words cannot flatten from the mindless cruelty of Katrina; there’s much in the head that cannot be trashed. The muse hits the minstrel with a hurricane, teaches the primitive lessons of a cyber age— the common denominator of survival for all surpasses whatever bank accounts or stardom! 272
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