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“I admit I took a Negro child to a white rest room in Texas, but she was my daughter, only three, and she had to pee, and I just didn't know what to do, would you?”

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“WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR PAST Serve it with lemons and curdled milk with shortbread biscuits make the day gray spots of rain. Make a quilt out of the villains crochet the heroes together in a hat Wear the hat. Use the quilt as a picnic blanket. Bring your friends. Watch the squirrels be tiny monkeys dare-deviling the trees. Exclaim things! Each lemon, sup of tea, cookie is a bite into the future / will digest, exit, and swim. Digest. Exit. Swim. Drink the curdled milk and get sick watch your friends clean up hold your hair back / hat on hand you a tissue. When you wash the vomit out of the villainous quilt each time it gets weaker Picnic often.”

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“Fully Vaccinated (The Sonnet) I am alive, well and fully vaccinated, Despite pledging allegiance to no authority. Listening to experts is not complacency, It's just an act of common sense humanity. You trust bus-drivers to get you to work, You trust pilots to fly you to places. Then why are you afraid to trust scientists, Without science we'd still be living like savages. State doesn't need to put microchip in your body, Future tech isn't needed to rule prehistoric veggies. Your dependency on social media is sufficient, To observe, manipulate and exploit your life stories. Be cautious of your online footprint, not inoculation. Be accountable and get your shot trampling all hesitation.”

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Book:Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
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“إذا لم تفتح الكوّة لن تطيرَ إلى غرفتك الحمامة . ... كيف نحملُ العبء ، وننهضُ بعد الطوفان. كيف نمضي ،مرّةً أخرى إذا ما جاءتنا أيَامٌ عرفنا فيها أعاصيرَ لا تكفّ عن اقتلاع الأشجار من جذورها . ... دع التيّار يأخذ ما يُريد. دعني أبقَ في مكاني. أعطني هذه اللحظة ، ودعني. أريد أن اسمع القصة. ... كيف بدأت ،متى تنتهي ، ضدَّ من هذه المعركة . من بقيوا ،قرأوا الكتابة على الجدار. من هاجرَ، لم يجد الأرض الموعودة. ... لا مهرب : فالأرض ستربطنا إلي خصرها ولن تترك لنا أن نُفلت ، مثل أم مفجوعة ،حتى النهاية . ... وإذا ما صرخنا إذا ما أفصحنا عن اصواتنا الأخرى فحتى الملائكة ستخفي رؤوسنا تحت أجنحتها الثقيلة لئلا تسمع الصرخة . ... شارة الانبعاث اليومي كفت عن الأضاءة :ف آخر النفق، لم أعد صالحا للإنجراف مع المناخات الزائلة ربما كان هذا هو المعنى أن تترك المحطات خالية وراءك أن تُغادر قبل أن تغادرك الأشياء وأن تتعلم كيف تحيا ، هكذا . ... كل ما نحلم به ألا تعصف بنا هذة الاعاصير زاوية ننام فيها ، صفحة بيضاء حيث لا تكذب الكلمات . ... هذا العالم حديقة اشواك.”

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Author:عظمة أخرى لكلب القبيلة، سركان بولص
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“There is a We in this poem To which everyone belongs. As in We the People-- In order to form a more perfect Union-- And: We were objects of much curiosity To the Indians-- And: The next we present before you Are things very appalling-- And: We find we are living, suffering, loving, Dying a story. We had not known otherwise-- We's a huckster, trickster, has pluck. We will draw you in.”

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Book:Duende
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