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"Sweet Chariot"

Swing low
sweet chariot 
where it hurts
most, we smile
through the pain,
violins always 
swept me away
saving pianos
for buriel daze,
keys, each a note,
to be played

demons come 
and...

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One way
I know this afrocentric music
rather than a eurocentric mere performance piece
is longing for
a sweet and swinging chariot,
rather than a messiah white and male.

I know
this...

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From a swift wind may she return this night,
may the moon delight the path less traveled
and make mighty her heals; 
for this tiny flower wan...

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with the tilt of the head,
and a heart so heavy...
he sits on the floor of his home,
thinking every moment about his capital levy...

for there are...

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