Anaïs Duplan - Lawrence Andrews, And They Came Riding into Town on Black and Silver Horses, 1992, 29:57


Why let the bums build the gardens?
Structures we rely upon are built by the outsider, the Antilles.
Some of these men came to know more
than the priest    many died           in the name of paradise.
A female white officer      about shooting and being shot at
says to communicate to the other person. She says she locks
her gun up every night. Robbing a white woman, he ran
from the scene but was picked up
by police and charged with robbing, says the white
woman picked him out of the lineup, though the man
was much heavier and larger than him. Explaining a perpetrator.
The face of a black man as it’s being drawn             need and fear commingled