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Best Fat Of The Land Poems


Premium Member Fat In the Land of Plenty
Sometime ago, I was fat in the land of Plenty.
I lived on the Savanna, and worshipped the ancestors.
Sometime ago, a horde of barbarians came to the Savanna,
They called me “Savage”.  Yet I had no idea of what “Savage” meant.
So I asked the ancestors, “What...

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Categories: fat of the land, angst, black african american,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Eat the Green and Fat of the Land
Who is the bear;
That is running scared?
Taken what is not his
What it is, what it is;
Telling you what's good for you
And what's not
Drinking portage and hemlock (what)
And who is the lion
whose got the people crying
Saving grace has no place for intolerant tying up people with...

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Categories: fat of the land, adventure, allegory, allusion, character,
Form: Lyric

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