Thomas Jefferson
...It interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing...
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Categories:
slaveowner, culture, happiness, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Summer of 63
..."*******" and pork pie hats
white shirts, black ties
sweat stains under their arms,
even wetter, the pressed handkerchiefs that wipe faces and necks.
Father Abraham looks down upon his children
and s...
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Categories:
slaveowner, memory, patriotic,
Form: Free verse