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Sep 10
Woke, what does it mean?
You call everything woke with which you disagree
Having blue hair or boys over for tea
Though you turn your head away from real atrocities
Small bodies in cots, bellies distended from rot
Young black men in the streets out there getting shot
Women carrying babies with no hope of life
Yet you call this "woke" and claim your own strife
If your eyes were to open and you were to see
Maybe you'd be awoken, woke just like me.
I'm terribly tired of this word, and its use. I thought I'd make it into a poem instead.
Triscuit
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Triscuit  24/Transmasculine/Michigan
(24/Transmasculine/Michigan)   
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   Emirhan Nakaş
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