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The Death of Poverty

#*Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying*.                                               Alfred Lord Tennyson Grieve the fallen warriors of diversity. A trumpet’s mournful sound now casts its pall . . . Southern rumors: prophets of perversity Non-profiting from Liberal wherewithal: Poverty’s pimps. Their bold hypocrisy Weinsteins loudly, colliding with our news; Southern Law: poor as our democracy Purporting to promote progressive views. His name rang sweet in all progressive ears But now the cypresses sigh out their song; For scams must be exposed—though it wring tears We hear the dirge; night’s shadows looming long. Weep, oh armchair zealots of the cause For Morris Dees, a victim of his laws.
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connecthook
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Apr 5, 2019
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inspired by:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGvsC9-AFM

PROMPT #4: write your own sad poem,

but one that achieves sadness through simplicity.

Playing with the sonnet form may help you . . .

be straightforward, using plain, small words.

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