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Ain't I A Woman? newspapers, June 1970-July 1971
1971-04-30 "Ain't I a Woman?" Page 9
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[hand drawn hand] [hand drawn head] On the Subway N.Y. Is there a grownup way to say it what's up there over my head how long till there's a bathroom is it ok for me to hold your hand funny noise made me think of something i don't know the name of the city again makes me feel like a little child agian with everything two feet above my head like a child but not like the child I grew up as running in green space trees ballgames + a one floor school where i got A's not that but hte child i felt like sitting in a tenement window solitary huddled part of neither the outside scene not the inside warmth the child no one saw i was the child i feel is still me it's like double vision seeing double is a trick like the way my mind monitors everything i do: now i'm dialing the number now i'm seeing the image of me dialing the number this goes on as i'm writing it down & seeing the image of me as a writier like double vision seeing double is a trick there's the real me doin the real thing & simultaneously & not far away here i am watching myself & only one scene is real & the other is an image & seeing double is a trick is there some way not to go through all these things twice only one scene is real pick your image you have to trust your judgement you have to live in your world can y see both sides can y believe one is closer to you one coming into focus one fading its like double vision seeing double is a trick be tricky or be tricked coming into focus i meet your eyes women arise. [hand drawn woman sitting] Pissed Off Poem "...You probably didn't think I did But I heard You say love is just a four letter word.." and I heard you say it oh, not like so but I heard your opinion of me as those people and you couldn't even make any other kind of noise, boys A Woman? April 30, 1971 9
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[hand drawn hand] [hand drawn head] On the Subway N.Y. Is there a grownup way to say it what's up there over my head how long till there's a bathroom is it ok for me to hold your hand funny noise made me think of something i don't know the name of the city again makes me feel like a little child agian with everything two feet above my head like a child but not like the child I grew up as running in green space trees ballgames + a one floor school where i got A's not that but hte child i felt like sitting in a tenement window solitary huddled part of neither the outside scene not the inside warmth the child no one saw i was the child i feel is still me it's like double vision seeing double is a trick like the way my mind monitors everything i do: now i'm dialing the number now i'm seeing the image of me dialing the number this goes on as i'm writing it down & seeing the image of me as a writier like double vision seeing double is a trick there's the real me doin the real thing & simultaneously & not far away here i am watching myself & only one scene is real & the other is an image & seeing double is a trick is there some way not to go through all these things twice only one scene is real pick your image you have to trust your judgement you have to live in your world can y see both sides can y believe one is closer to you one coming into focus one fading its like double vision seeing double is a trick be tricky or be tricked coming into focus i meet your eyes women arise. [hand drawn woman sitting] Pissed Off Poem "...You probably didn't think I did But I heard You say love is just a four letter word.." and I heard you say it oh, not like so but I heard your opinion of me as those people and you couldn't even make any other kind of noise, boys A Woman? April 30, 1971 9
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