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A Little West Indian River History

"There's a river meandering through the mind," older than the Englishmen who raised a bridge over its Constitution, a nude Indian sped away from a warring Englishman behind absconding by canoe to an adjacent isle but smallpox caught the indie afore ammunition "There's a river meandering through the mind," that witnessed the grapes of wrath in '37 and suffered its wine, the black potential rebelled against the clear minority who had signed emancipation letters without intent ergo, cars with bodies went flying upon the riparian spine "There's a river meandering through the mind," leaning on treasonous city hearts, wrinkling under the trebled degrees of island sun, chuffing at progressiveness and how the colour schemes lightly redesigned black power free, it seems, walks unfettered to its banks carrying tackle, tiki-torches, tourists, a picnic, and gun

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Date: 5/30/2025 8:39:00 AM
I like the history lesson your poem provides Trina, Very nicely penned Congrats on your win
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Trina Layne
Date: 5/30/2025 4:25:00 PM
Thank you!

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