THEY KNOW IT
...I know their fears.
I know their cravings.
I know their reflexes.
I know their thoughts.
They know that I know who they are.
I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin.
I’ve...
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Categories:
multinationals, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
FOR CENTURIES
...Africa does not belong to the West.
Its raw materials do not belong to the West.
The banana republics of French-speaking Africa do not belong to France.
African immigration cannot be criminaliz...
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Categories:
multinationals, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
VISION OF A TORMENTED WORLD
...The din of darkness,
The cacophony of impostors,
The symphony of ignorance,
The decadence of progress,
Colonial heritage,
The empire of the pharaohs,
The agony of the pyramids,
The orde...
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Categories:
multinationals, 12th grade, adventure, africa,
Form: Free verse
The Formulas We Can'T Agree On
...While some formulas have long been agreed on,
With specific weights and measures defining them,
And as anyone who has failed an exam,
Because they tried a formula previously proven unreliable,
W...
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Categories:
multinationals, allusion, analogy, art, baptism,
Form: Imagism
Ending In a Deadly Minor Key
...So here's my question for this dawning day,
like a WinWin ruminating message in a bottle
floating through a LoseLose climate sea
felt still foggy from last night,
some mysterious how now;
One ...
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Categories:
multinationals, anger, anti bullying, dark,
Form: Political Verse
Wendell Berry's Boutique
...Organic
zero-waste stream
permaculturally designed
and cooperatively owned
farms
are no more or less Democratic-Boutique ecopolitics
Than AgriBusiness
extractive anti-ecological
rather th...
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Categories:
multinationals, america, farm, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Copla 111 Resolution: This Bad Guy World
...COPLA 111 RESOLUTION : This Bad Guy World
Criminals and cowards are blood brothers
Both operate in stealth to inflict
Harm to increase wealth
States multinationals speculators
Rely on spi...
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Categories:
multinationals, bullying, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
After School
...they taught us to bury our heroes
and live with the belief
that everyone will die a hero.
they taught us to draw our swords
and consider not what we kill
but what we allow to live.
they taugh...
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Categories:
multinationals, world,
Form: Narrative
Religion of Youth
...Religion of Youth
The clouds of Bamiyan flew over my head,
I started and woke up whining on my bed.
O God, again the mankind is in the docks,
I wondered how I would turn back the clocks.
In re...
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Categories:
multinationals, inspirational, people, uplifting, visionary,
Form: I do not know?