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Grown To Love Cowboys

Please don't speak his trumped up name Like ValdeMore and more and more hard-played cards in my competing hand, history echoes such dark memories fettered, now and then, by death's final reincarnation Because some will claim his was a name for Boys will be CowBoys all White the privileged well-capitalized same, An unspoken name for Wild CowBoy Lost, a martyr for washed out useless stupidly competitive lives following red's latest overpowering authority shifting and shifty while barely surviving Followers deny, or even religiously rapturously celebrate Earth's final redhot climate death And others will take up his StraightWhiteMale miseried DeathCulture tune and persistently resistantly speak his name as if its virally true red white and deadly blue, He was wild; A cowboy who could buy your ranch and you and all your neglected and abused riches for tomorrow, and all Earth treasures borrowed from health manifest, destiny of win/win Wild Liberating Bounty, beautiful green democratic Us Who barely remember his weaponized violent CowBoy name. 1/23/21

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Date: 1/27/2021 6:16:00 PM
Really nice....Congrats on your win Gerald :)
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Date: 1/27/2021 3:07:00 PM
whilst i don't necessarily agree with the political view, i nevertheless had to give this a high placement as it's a very accomplished poem, well written and well expressed..congrats on your win in my contest!
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