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 Naming Me

Birthday when I turned five years old

How I got my James Baldwin name

To me Mom and Dad this tale told.

It happened on the day I came.

Mom told Dad that my time had come

To be born and so the two got

Mom's things together and left from

Home with the destination sought

Of the hospital where I would

Be delivered, and Mom and Dad

Thought a corner street sign was good.

That's how I got the name I had.

James Street and Baldwin Street did be

Hospital where the folks had me.