“He was cool Super-cool Ultrablack A tan/purple Had a beautiful shade He had a double natural that would put the sisters to shame His dashikis were tailor made & his beads were imported sea shells He was triple-hip His tikis were hand-carved Out of ivory And came express from the motherland He would greet you in Swahili and say goodbye in Yoruba Mannnn he was so cool & intelligent Cool-Cool, ultra cool, icebox cool, so cool his wine didn’t have to be cooled He was air condition cool Cool-Cool was so cool he made me cool Cool-Cool so cool we nicknamed him refrigerator Cool-Cool so cool he didn’t know After Detroit, Newark, Oakland, and Chicago We had to remind Cool-cool that to be black is to be very hot”
-Don L. Lee, 1969
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