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Francis Scott Key ...
a song provocateur, who spoke
most ungentlemanly

Scott “Don’t set ‘em Free” 
had to be 
the most rabid racist
you never wanted to meet

Francis the Talking Mule
wrote a rousing anthem of war
Liberty for poor black souls like me,
wasn’t what it was written for

That patriotic song...

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Categories: off key, perspective, slavery, truth, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
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does it really count
if we're in the wrong line?
lousy choices get no discount
only angles which won't align

drifting off course
placing bets on the wrong horse
a singer singing out of tune
trumpet solo played on bassoon

ahead of my time
always swimming upstream
now gone well past prime
caught up in the...

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Categories: off key, culture, perspective, repetition, words,
Form: Rhyme
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Art
uncaged-
musical
monuments in
paint

Cge Painting Cycle by Gerhard Richter

http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/6380/cage-6-paintings-by-gerhard-richter...

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Categories: off key, art, music
Form: Ekphrasis

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