Léon-Gontran Damas

They Came That Night

For Léopold-Sedar Senghor

They came that night when the

tom

     tom

          rolled from

                         rhythm

                                     to

                                        rhythm

                                                   the frenzy

of eyes

the frenzy of hands

the frenzy

of statues’ feet

SINCE

how many of ME ME ME

have died

since they came that night when the

tom

      tom

            rolled from

                            rhythm

                                       to

                                         rhythm

                                                   the frenzy

of eyes

the frenzy

of hands

the frenzy

of statues’ feet

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Scheduled Poems

Damas: Poet of Negritude

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