Category: Racial & Social justice
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Porch sitting
On the other side of the park lives a boy with a blue bike, red helmet and big smile I see him everyday when I walk we smile and wave as we pass He rides by our porch and waves I often see him on other porches Talking with adults and other kids who only…
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America
has committed atrocities before and history proves white lives matter more is outraged in pieces but much of the country is like punk, Thao, who watches Chauvin “kneeling on a handcuffed black man’s neck and ignoring pleas that the man couldn’t breathe” is grateful it’s not black like George Floyd choked by an empowered white…
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Police erotica
Dear America I can’t talk right now stop calling No more labored breathing on the phone This ain’t no tragic game of police erotica S & M in the streets dominatrix writes the rules Handcuff a man asphyxiate until almost dead Oops, did we kneel on his neck too long We were just playing blame…
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For what it’s worth
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The numbers and letters in the abstract art on the wall of your favorite restaurant is not a secret code The man at the grocery Is just staring off into space because he’s bored and is not looking for his next victim The scruffy person on the park bench who said hi is not a…
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Welcome Back
Kylie Jenner Showed Off the Stretch Marks on Her Breasts and Fans Loved It Howard Stern Tells Trump Voters What The President Really Thinks Of Them GOP Group Exposes ‘King’ Trump’s Legal Shell Game In Blistering New Fox News Ad As Trump and Willam Barr Try to Undo His Work, It’s Robert Mueller Time Twitter…
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Folklore 101
Grandpa said varmints nest in wood piles He made mom move the wood pile every week A snake or rat was never seen in their wood pile Something about southern cockroaches on steroids evokes Screams and thrown shoes from my wife and makes me laugh I moved our wood pile and palmetto bugs did not…
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When Bottom Feeders Try to Troll the Shoreline
Because I’m old and white and if you’re old and white some hateful unAmerican miscreant has sent you a private message about ungrateful angry lazy black people who act like America owes them something _____ I replied because they’re black in America they were cheated again and again and again and if you’re black in…
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