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How do I begin
The litany of my praise
Where so much is wrong
And we in the haze
Of material focus
See not the spirit dripping
Into soggy souls.
We see the goals
Extolled by what brings to ruin
Other blind places
While around me throng
Two point seven million
Disharmonous songs.
How do I begin
To enthrone the humanity
Surrendered 
To the modern love
Of foreign vanity?
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So here am I
Unhappy before I left
Unhappier now
Having seen things differently
And different for thirty years
Walked in prisons
That gleamed like human space
Compared to hospitals
That bring me tears
I cannot cheer the blight
Of fifty years
But I still believe
This land is special
More than sand castles
And hotel commercials
That mute
The red bleeding mud
Deep in a vision's blood
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Come Columbus help me write
The rewrite of your beginning of lies
History did not begin us right
Sea dogs and pirates, swarming flies
For commodity of meat, nothing great
If a man has no origin
No achievemment, he still can hate
The conquistadores sin
Against his patrimony and race. We
Are the expansion of the kingdom
Heirs and makers of a new country
We are history's vintage from the rum
The lies told at the borders and now
Laid to the blame of father's crying still
And bush overgrown yam and hill
O Jamaica, to you alone we make this vow
That we shall not about our state
We shall love you when all others hate.

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