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What if there was no crime?What if there was an unlimited lifetime?What if the diverse weren’t tormented? What if the world was correctly represented?What if we weren’t segregated by race? What if we were all in a happy place?
Admiring his handiwork, he stood
Before the wall drenched in paint.
They compared him to Banksy; they would
Claim he could draw anything, without complaint.
But comparison to anyone was degrading,
I have awoken with dreamy eyes In too many unfamiliar placesOn warm exotic beaches - in inexpensive inner city beds
Mwen menm ayisyen
From a little island named Hispanola
Next to el republica domincana
Where we eat sweet plantains and sip kremas
Open your eyes what do you see? A very funny question you should ask me.
Am I the only one seeing things wrong? Am I the only one seeing the malfunction going on?
Footprints on the sands of time
glow with birthmark
each glittering step
unshaken and challenging
not by yielding to temptation
but thirst for truth
for the awakening of men
for soul-searching
Born from an egg like all the other ducklings
And from a family who thought would teach it right,
But who knew family could just be as bad?
Intentionally laughing and pointing at it out of spite--
I am the girl who is only 5 feet.
I am the girl who is ADHD.
I am the girl who is white.
I am the girl who most people don't notice.
I am the girl who has a hat full of pins.
Let me tell you the folklore of the hardcore
Who crystallised 7th neuron into majestic bilinear
Stood transfixed at the centre of death's voyeur
Admitted to institution of fool's theatre
Oh Chicago, how you eat its young with passion in the night.
Oh Chicago, how you reveal a love soliloquy from Frank himself.
