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Black SuperHero Music (for Chicago)

Poison spoon fed the nodding King and ended ancestors.

 

Holy cows bought government *****

and ate suicides grown by ***** Kubla Khan gospels.

 

Shantih, Leviticus, and other proper thoughts

kissed arms of air and made islands from memories of breakfast.

 

Eternity perished in the illusion of swallowed tongues

in the belly of an infant—

and yesterday,

 

Only one bullet of hallelujah stood swimming.

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Written by
ugochukwu-charles-onyewuchi
Nigerian
Published
Mar 31, 2013
Lines·Words
9·63
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"It’s a war going on outside we ain’t safe from

I feel the pain in my city wherever I go

314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago"--Kanye West ****** to Excellence"

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