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STOLEN BRIGHT
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a queen
wears
stolen crown jewels
shining bright
from a country
her ancestors invaded.
They shine in the light.
The moon also
shines with stolen
light.
She does herself
array
in sun owned rays.
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BURNING BUSH
*
Late October
... painted by Divine Brush
every tree every shrub
a Burning Bush
for the Omnipresent
God dwells within
and confers to each
his special flush
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ORANGE FLAG
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There was an upright
pinecone..
into whose top
the stem of a falling
leaf had stuck...
an orange flag on a fallen
castle
*
POLYENNIAL
*
The fact that
a polyennial plant
was neglected and
froze to death is
not a reason to classify
the victim as an annual
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FUMES
*
Some call the stench
of patchouli fumes
by the name: perfume
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SKINNY LEGS
*
On such skinny legs
did Sea Biscuit
carry the whole
nation's soul...
as over and over again
he ran out his entire heart
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Footnote:
Not an endorsement of
the brutality of horse racing
.. the horses' broken necks
and legs, their deaths in barn
fires, their victimization by
whips and spurs, their
forced reception of drug,
their lives of loneliness shipped
from one place to another
*
EVEN TODAY
*
Black men are arrested by
all white police forces and sent
to their deaths by all white
judiciaries, prosecutors,
juries, parole boards
*
-saiom shriver-
