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Why we speak… | The Soul in the Sun
The reason we speak up / It never occurred to you / That sending us to a school / Named after a confederate / Might make us uncomfortable
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Poetry
No one cared… | The Soul in the Sun
No one ever worried / That learning the horrors of our history / Might make us sad and uncomfortable / From the auctions to the lynchings / No one ever cared about that
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Spring | Whiskey and Words
A row of barstools / has decayed from loneliness / and the curb outside / crumbles from neglect.These days / swing from / apathy to anger / and back.
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Unmitigated gall! | The Soul in the Sun
We’ve have watched you / Come after us and our rights / Time and time again / Every single generation / Every time we start to shine / Every single time!
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Rejection | Whiskey and Words
Even when you anticipate it / the sting pulses through you / whether it’s a love interest / who picked someone else / or the local poetry festival / that rejected your work / as unsurprising as it is. /…
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