"A Penguin original"--Label on cover

At ease --Why that Abbott and Costello vaudeville mess never worked with black people --That's not in my job description --Dib dab --Annotation of a funky breakdown --No tag backs --Sitting on other people's cars --Verbal mugging --About the author --Quote unquote --Tap tap on Africa --Desert boots --Daryl Patterson and Bugs Bunny's black nationalist cheerleading camp --What a pity, what a shame --Two pink dots? You positive? --Mickey Mouse build a house --Independent study --Big bowls of cereal --Stall me out.

A collection of poems about Afro-Americans and their place in the American society. The subjects range from a eulogy of John Brown to criticism of a poet who sells out to the white establishment