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Mar 2021
The significance of the day
on which I was born was given to
all of us by my working-class, coal
mining ancestors whose sweat,
blood, and healthy lung tissue
were sacrificed to the
god of capital.

Whose dedication and fierce
struggle for the right to
one ******* day not devoted
to god or the ruling class brought us
this Saturday on which I entered
the world with raised fists.
Alyson Lie
Written by
Alyson Lie  Cambridge, MA
(Cambridge, MA)   
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