THE SCAVENGERS
...For millennia,
the scavengers have spread chaos across the Earth.
They sow desolation
for sterile chimeras,
for fleeting vanities.
If I had held the power of creation,
this cursed planet
w...
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Categories:
racialist, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
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:
racialist, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
LUGUBRIOUS READING
...I have read the Code Noir.
I have read the papal bull of Nicholas V.
I have read the charter of imperialism.
I have read the Indigenous Code
I have read the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran.
I ha...
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Categories:
racialist, africa,
Form: Free verse
I CHOSE
...I chose to write,
For all those torn-off branches,
For all those scarred backs,
For all those dehumanized bodies,
For all those centuries of persecution.
I chose to read,
To decon...
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Categories:
racialist, 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:
racialist, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
THE CRADLE
...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering.
I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety.
I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy.
My distress illuminated...
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Categories:
racialist, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Outside the Livestock
...Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, three precious ideals, blinded by the darkness of xenophobia.
The Republic, democracy and human rights are the pillars of a just society, but in the depths of Mari...
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Categories:
racialist, 1st grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
Three Sins
...Politics, sport and religion, I refused in public to debate
But now that I am Late
I never rated Mohammed Ali as the greatest pugalist
Admittingly he could swing a good fist
Margaret Thatcher as...
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Categories:
racialist, absence,
Form: Epitaph