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Precious Haiti

Precious Haiti Haiti sounds like hate I Rhymes with Baby doc And Papa doc Feels like Made in USA But Unlike the Mariel Boatlift The people are excluded from Entering Black Dark White teeth African Looking French and Creole speaking People Haitians Unwanted Haiti Shook the world Fought and won A great war Against the French But this black Revolution This first black republic Like a white’s man rabbit’s foot Like a white’s voodoo Back fired On Haiti Because they Paid Reversed Reparation For 100 years 250 years ago An earthquake Rocked Haiti The world yawned 100 years ago An earthquake Rocked Haiti The world Announced the seismic Reading Minutes ago Haiti sat on a wall Haiti had a great fall And like Humpty Dumpty All the King’s horses and All the King’s men Couldn’t put aside their hate and indifference To put Haiti back together again…..

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