“But what I really want to say is we gone fall into the night like we fell into each other and it won't hurt no more.” Mahogany L. Browne, author of the poetry collection Smudge (Button Poetry, 2016), reads “Redbone Shames the Devil” for the Button Poetry Live series in June 2016.
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