The Struggle for America's Soul
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The struggle for America’s soul
now almost 250 years old
Shoulder-to-shoulder at her border
freedom contends with law’n’order
From ‘Give me liberty or give me de...
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Categories:
haymarket, america, change, conflict, freedom,
Form: Couplet
Zealous untiring repentance
...Zealous untiring repentance
Fleshed out as poetic confessional.
Profligacy prevailed pricking psyche
precipitating pandemonium.
I wrought havoc courtesy aegis
of paramours picadillos, your...
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Categories:
haymarket, absence, adventure, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
The Chicago Haymarket Riot of 1886
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It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led eig...
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Categories:
haymarket, history, death, men, work,
Form: Rhyme