Poem-A-Day April 12: they ask me to remember

Hello Friends,
If you have 2 minutes to spare, I highly recommend you listen to Lucille Clifton read today’s poem, along with her introduction about the origins of this poem, in a 2007 recording from the University of Arizona Poetry Center. “why some people be mad at me sometimes” appeared in Clifton’s 1987 collection Next.
Enjoy,
Ællen


why some people be mad at me sometimes

they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and i keep on remembering
mine.

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