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FOR ALL THAT IT'S WORTH

FOR ALL THAT IT’S WORTH – BY HAMID SINCLAIR

In God… we find the godless.  
So-called transformers of faith—  
Neo-Decepticons, New Age ravers,  
Ravenous sheep… in wolf’s clothing.  

Hapless victims—bitten by the serpent.  
They entered humanity’s paradise… and robbed him.  
No—her.  
Wait… is it her/him?

Everyone catching the vapors of

Categories: reparations, america,
Form: Spoken Word

Debt Relief

. for public domain

[Allusions to Matthew 5:26, Luke 12:54]

I heard the church bell ring,
saw neighbors go in and sing,
felt forgiveness of the Lord
course through my sinful veins.
I was freed from the pains
I caused everyone for living,
and I moved on down the road.

Soon, a car pulled up by my side.
The Old Man asked, "Need a ride?"
"No

Categories: reparations, forgiveness, religion, religious,
Form: Rhyme

Reparations Translation - Doa

aka
   ~ 'Where's my $1.2 million, Gov?! ~


  Governor Newsom won't back reparations
  Says they are so much more than
    'mere' financial machinations ... 

  A 'committee' made a fool of La-La-Landers
  with $$$$ proposals backed by buckets of sand ~
    Governor Newsom,

Categories: reparations, money, moving on, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

On Reparations

Can we ever truly right the wrongs of the past?
Seems to me what was done cannot be undone,
And I am not a proponent of crippling remorse
So, let’s just face facts, as they were, and resolve
To learn from our mistakes, moving steadily on.
Must we pay the price for our ancestors’ follies,
Recalling that reparations will never be

Categories: reparations, america, angst, feelings, how
Form: Blank verse

You Are Owed No Reparations, Part Ii

...And what of my English background,
when those damn Normans came to town,
they slaughtered us, and left us ruled,
by Frenchman with ambitions cruel!
So Paris owes me lots of cash,
and London owes me too, at that!
And that’s not to mention the Welsh,
they made me too, and suffered hell!
I want that money, want in now!
And don’t dare say,

Categories: reparations, africa, anger, history, how
Form: Rhyme

You Are Owed No Reparations, Part I

You hear it said a lot these days,
“Reparations! Someone must pay!
Our ancestors suffered, it’s true!
For that we’ve come to take from you!”
Now we could just point out the fact
none of us were alive that far back,
that sin can never be passed down,
we’re sovereign actors, here and now,
we did not commit these mistakes,
and by no right

Categories: reparations, africa, anger, history, how
Form: Rhyme

Slavery and Reparations All Done

SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS
I am a descendant of slaves - from India!
Anyone who demands REPARATIONS shake & quake at my words
Competition? So, we have competing tales of bondage?
The Jewish people's perhaps the longest & cruelest,
With smaller holocausts to spouses, persons, populations (including bison)
Yes, in 1860, my ancestors were shanghied into South Africa -
Zulus were self-confident, with

Categories: reparations, africa, america, analogy, black
Form: Bio

No 122742073018

I was born to be a prostitute,
I knew this was who I would be 
when  Grandmama walked ten miles to clean houses seven days a week.
I knew this is who I would be
 when Great Grandma died and the family inherited the burden of putting her in the ground and putting food on the

Categories: reparations, black african american, pain,
Form: Free verse

Reparations, a Monumental Task

Egypt, please pay off the Jewish people...in pyramids

                          chirr...….chirr.....chirr

Categories: reparations, irony, jewish,
Form: Free verse

Emotional Reparations To Eden Liat Part Uno

(Aborted attempt to mend fences, -
which version overly pedantic for
her minimal leisure/down time as
full time student at University.)
no...no...no...this tree
mend dose electronic
     endeavor of mine, ya see
NOT predicated on

     violating sworn
     confidentiality, which re:
maned wolf heartedly intact NEVER
     your privacy

Categories: reparations, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Elegy

Emotional Reparations To Eden Liat Part Deux

yours truly of course trolling, try
ying to stay afloat sigh
ying with forlorn resignation
     as the air supply
precipitously abba salute lee 
decreased, thru challenge
     hang IP course
     to bridge (yar

     suspended animus) bee
tween das father,
     and

Categories: reparations, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegy

Reparations

A man's first right is to his own country:
That place by choice that was his father's hope
Before. His breathing make its history,
Its death is his shackles, his dream its scope.
This was the first discord jarring nature
When your hulls scraped the rock, unearthed us
And moved us backwards to the dark future.
Reparations demand you pay with trust

Categories: reparations, black african american, history,
Form: Verse