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#disproportion
African American plight Incessant fright Dark days into night Equality, a concept unbeknownst to we Or is it me Not born locally And speaking colloquially Now disillusioned For a society alienated Is a society decapitated And the people dilapidated   When you turn a blind eye And hope not to hear their cry Malignant systems Elected officials to fix them When all they do is fix them To individual greed And the corporate elite Disenfranchised youth Incarcerated they lose Communities gentrified And families undignified A Marginalized people Seen as second class But a man of colour is no different from another.
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Sep 14, 2018
Sep 14, 2018 at 5:21 AM UTC
Race in America
Manic intensity manic elation so high sunshine is melting my wings so ******* hope filled songsinging research doing life clinginging savour filled so proud and grateful I cry compulsively uncontrollably restless tight skin playing caught up the righteous anger and the swift guilt To Deep ocean crushing eternally sleeping everything is awful I'm a failure sloth in the pit depression in the earth I am the pit and the lead and my only purpose is discomfort to the flat empty that void the void in my chest that swallows it all Swallows me down so uncontrollably to the darkest places I sedate and prevent the scars but that abyss in my body threatens to become implosion. I'm so drained, so worn through with feeling, the inbetween place eludes me continuously I don't know what shape the middle mild propotunate feelings have.
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Oct 10, 2017
Oct 10, 2017 at 3:55 PM UTC
Disproportion