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Regressions
for Andre

Casting out my sonic deep spell to you,
dreaming over water on the opposite side 
of my ocean, you were the flip side of my coin, 
and even if sometimes, love does not last, 
one hopes to become less cynical. Romeo, 
in another incarnation, scaling...

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Categories: scummed, bereavement,
Form: Bio
Pain of My People

The pain of my people,
it flows through my pen
The shouts ... the screams,
the wails from
generations of suffering
I spirit heard the painful call
	of the first foot fall,
when my people disembarked
from long ships in chains
	onto strange soil
Had our native tongue
snatched from our lips,
then was told to serve...

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Categories: scummed, emotions, pain, sad, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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