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200 Year War

The history of the two hundred year war
T'was blackness at it core

A Feudal Economic plan
It good conscience it couldn't stand

Thousands died in fields of waste
Quenching its bitter taste

Edits like Dred Scott
Its effect not soon forgot

Raiding maunders of the Klug Klux Klan 
Hanging trees and a  poll tax plan

Atrocities committed in Rosebud
Civil Rights a justice thud

Dispensation in the name of Obama
No ending there but a coma

Today they march commemorating its story
In false glorification of its history

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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