Cotton is truly King ,--from Blue Ridge to Southern border , creator of fortune , remedy to pain and struggle , dividing--- pitting neighbor against neighbor , market afire funding Sheriffs and constable , alive and rampant among elderly , teenager , public official ......
King Cotton reintroducing malignant , corruption , nay from yesteryear at mercy of whip and chain ,slave and sharecropper , but to the gun , homelessness and the horror of merciless addiction....................
Sep 17, 2015
Sep 17, 2015 at 4:01 PM UTC
Cotton is truly King ,--from Blue Ridge to Southern border , creator of fortune , remedy to pain and struggle , dividing--- pitting neighbor against neighbor , market afire funding Sheriffs and constable , alive and rampant among elderly , teenager , public official ......
King Cotton reintroducing malignant , corruption , nay from yesteryear at mercy of whip and chain ,slave and sharecropper , but to the gun , homelessness and the horror of merciless addiction....................
Cotton . A southern crop for over 150 years recalls a dark period in Georgia. Slavery and sharecropping. Cotton is also slang for a modern problem as well in rural Georgia.... The abuse of Oxycontin pain medicine....
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