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To your left you’ll see the American President
Standing shiney-shoed on the smooth
Snakey grasses of
the White house and hold me--
Are those clothespins in his hand?
Could he be?
Folks he’s hanging laundry!
Those are the peeled-off skins of
African-Americans, flapping in the gentle breeze...

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A woman—Arab—Activist?
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If you look through the door to your left
You’ll notice that the Prime Minister of
Your Country is slyly shoving an oil-slick
Pipeline down some red-skin (racist!) throat
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But Justin Trudeau is so cute though
In his Ramadan socks, toes wiggling...

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She used underpaid workers
To create Ivy Park ahh the
MEMORIES look this was my kid
4
3
2
Years ago
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