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It’s a terrible thing to be treated as less than human ... all should abhor Considered only as beast of burden — that’s the lying end of it, nothing more Iron yoke was our neck collar, leash was a throat chain Valued sixty cents on a dollar, man is a doggone shame! We were oxen on a perpetual till, work mules in a plantation field Our sweat harvest was golden amber grain of one hundred percent sob pain inhumane On the wage scale of cloaked justice, for our labor, we were given nothing Every economy based on oppression knows, slaves are beast of burden most profitable Muzzled voices auction sold in the free market as pack animals Degradation of subhuman sorrow made us feel less than whole Wary buyers were merchant told, slaves were worth their weight in gold Bray truth load in the cargo hold: Talking mules have a Three-Fifth soul ~ O, Shopper Queen, $$ bag Lady Liberty, I pagan pray with measured uncertainty Leaning hard on your graven image mercy for sooo long has been spiked crown thorny I do now toil realize, hence I speak Perseus bold: The grind-stone torch you Medusa hold, whose covetous flame be imperious cold, has dollar burned a hole into my Three-Fifth soul False Profits bought have emptied out from these pockets of Forty acre doubt Wavy trust carry not any anthem clout, rest easy on full pay is plow turnabout This I do believe, Miss Lady Liberty, from Times old: Pyramid schemes have an expiration date bar code 400-years interest repaid of Redeem hope stole has principally made whole my Three-Fifth soul
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