Bending toward justice
though some few years since Bending Toward Justice storied treatise hot off the press
riveting, nauseating, disquieting wanton venomous unfairness, tremendous
scandalous readable queasiness, per opprobrious nefarious malicious
larcenous knowledge, judiciously industriously honorably grafting flagrantly
execrable defrauding deeds, co-opting black americans freedom to vote,
i just completed reading totally tubular uber up lyft ting laudable research.
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no doubt, deluge of primary colorful tasks
takes precedence ahead
of perusing an email from this anonymous lower merion,
Pennsylvania bum-stead
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the seat of the pants, page-turning information
definitely found me empathetic with cred
jewel hiss angst cleaving enmity toward the gross
intolerable keep mulatto vote not so grateful dead
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the stifled sotto voce plaintive wail - that rustled
suffocatingly silenced cry echoing from each page
my whip smart daughter (a sophomore
at university of pennsylvania) scribbled notes
viz peoples of color found me choked up
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writhing with anger toward every egghead
who deliberate held back the vested inalienable rights of Negro,
which brutal, denigrating, foul...pushed darker melanin persons -
they exhibited defiance before forfeiting lives
perishing in a Pyrrhic victory or fled
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to regroup and/or fragment into sundry approaches to acquire
shunning peaceful resistance
such as older folks preference
vocalizing hymnals sung in the choir
whereby youth’s hearts burned with brimstone and fire
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recruiting a militant guerilla army for hire
loosening retaliatory actions
from white bigots with vehement ire
to trample any vestige of righteousness,
coordinated with fabrications spun by j.edgar hoover
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who as director of the FBI effaced worthiness
those, a scant number of generations enslaved -
defiled as a liar
which rubric of democracy essentially
a charade, facade, inlaid
with ludicrous mockery, shameless trickery, and travesty plier
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even to this day (which enlightenment rent
my soul with pained agony) and a de sire
to avoid actions countenancing the web of deceit, hate,
lurid Machiavellian chicanery, the recurrent theme did tire
yet, this mwm felt an obligation
to read every last word, than send you this wire.