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an ethtplan mother starves
while fat soldiers
lock food in warehouses.
let it rot
like her child's puff bellied
corpse in the parched grass
a black man homeless
lives in his own shit
on a frozen new york sidewalk
while millionaires
build walls around mansions
and pass him by in warm limousines
so you elect dancing fools
to the paper shuffle.
fight fire
throw gasoline into the wind
you sit here by my calm pond
furiously trying to scoop
moonlight's diamond illusion
for yourself
stop grabbing
i share all.
lay now in my rolling green arms
and know my touch upon my back
feel my breath upon your face -
soon i will swallow you whole-
-Pat Blackman
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