1.
Nearly two out of every three
American soldiers is a Negro.
They seem to be everywhere.
2.
In the small town of Isigny
I saw a funeral parlor
displaying a coffin with a baby.
3.
I caught a glimpse of a 12-year old boy
in a barber shop shaving
a man five times his age.
4.
Castles of old Norman lords.
(Roi Ottley’s diary, 1944)
Verbatim Poetry 