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Nov 2017
"To Right an Ode"



to right an ode to maize
i really must have lost it if it has come to this
from around the vicinity of south america chile is
america so why am i here in this place of my own
reception put in a blender that is i am i am shazzam
the colors alone are enough of a poke in the eye to shake
a sharp stick at  ( speaking of color ) wish i wasn't so conditionally
prejudice would love to caress some black ******* and thighs
and other parts but only if she acted my shade of white
( when you're crapping out the truth sometimes it stinks )
and there was a billboard up on lake street for one week
before someone complained and the city gestapo took it down
it said     the problem is culture not color
i don't know seems right to me but i'm just a confused
white guy in my head trying to drop society
from my brain without dying in the cold for lack
of gold which i still habitually cherish heh !
it buys aspirin and food can't be all bad
not even t.v. is all bad and that is an incredible
testament to the value of this red white and blue daze
of life is first i can have all the screaming world where ever
i'm sitting in front of and ( this the good part )
i can legally get up and turn the **** thing off !!!
and not even the news is all bad like even the news
tells us true one percent of the time but you really
have to concentrate to see it hence the commercials
which delude and hypnotise yet shows me there is
enough of the large big green benjamins around already just
need to put them to good use hence philosophy and logic
which have been studied for thousands of years with
the intensity of looking into a gun barrel you not holding
the trigger ( been there done that even tried to grab the gun
that really opened a trap door to my psyche let me tell you
he must have been a ****** we both got scarred and ran away )
so anyway the purpose of such effort is to justify
keeping mine in my pocket while you do whatever happens
to you i don't care as long as mine stays in my pocket
without guilt but i have to poke out my eyeballs for that
which really screws up the color     ( speaking of color )
if i wasn't so conditionally prejudice i'd really like to rock
with some black girls been working on the solution for 20 years
but still working on it
Mark Wanless
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Mark Wanless  mpls, mn
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