Angst Prejudice Poems

From fields of gold to the city's cold embrace,
He came a farmer, with a weathered face.
Dusty clothes, hands calloused and worn,
Carrying the burden of harvest...

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I beat my wings
At the moment of exhale
Unaware the air had grown stale
I was a white washed wasp
With no sting in my tale
Maybe because daddy...

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Mixing in the Moonlight 

Dear darling, gaze ye at the blood red moon.
Ancient light that calls with its bright red tones.
Fret not, on the breeze...

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Can they take back
the rights our parents earned?
Take back the Lynching
and all the houses burned?
Can they move you 
to the back of the bus?
And close...

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Shook up shaking
the bigot tree
loose nuts crushing 
they them me
crosses bashing
crosshair fit
I should know better 
but I just can’t quit....

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Cat’s eyes
	Telling lies
You stand in the shadows,
	to hear my cries.

You taunt me.
	You laugh at me.
You hide behind windows,
	and create my misery.

You ain’t no lady.
	your intent...

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LITTLE LESS THAN
	LISTEN
	  SO

   June 2018
         
Part One

Little less than
	Come around
Not my part
Your hearts
	Uptown

Little...

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Bill Shakespeare is wanted for hate speech,
His study’s surrounded with tape.
The local police were slow to react,
He may already have made his escape.
There’s a chance...

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Sentimentality

Most curious 
duality ... this
Sentimentality

Excessive tenderness,
sadness, nostalgia
corrupting modality,
distorting reality's
social edifice

Brain-cramping
contortion,
fierce pressure
building,
Sentimentality
wielding an
assault on
humanity! 

Liars lie with
impunity
Childhood
lessons lost
Darkness 
perverting civility 

Root of irrational passions,
misplaced idealism—
This insidious,
ever-swelling...

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With my blue eyes
I watched you find the lost
The place that should have always been
That place absent of shame and sin
Colour separation was meant to...

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ASSAULT 
I feel the light assault my tender optics. 
I see the elections flow and ebb. 
The particles of reality assault my mind. 
Can you...

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Dirty Hands

My white hands are dirty
Even if I don’t realize
My burdens light like my skin
I haven’t had the same trials

The house I live in
my manicured...

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Another
       black man murdered 
            by cops
 ...

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Many of my friends no longer watch network news 
Disgruntled by conflicting prejudicial reports 
Beholden to their network’s particular political views. 

Eyewitness accounts are dulled...

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Be quiet quiet quiet 
Shush shush shush
We’ve spoken too much
We haven’t listened enough

Black men and women
It’s not easy to be brave
Oppression and inequality 
make you...

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