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A Poetry tDrop
by Wetdryvac
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Light And Dark Shadows
May 19, 1992
I burn with an acid
all I can do is respond
all I can respond is retreat
do not let the hate and murder get to you
yeah, the races are killing each other
they see only them, demand evaluation
some say to be repeated, I hate so strong
all you black sons of bitches �� and fuck the rest of you
I hate you �� and you �� and fuck the rest of you
I respond in running �� hate knows no phenotype
color ��s color, evil knows no type
from either side, ��tis aggressor ��s hide
oh, that violence could be demarcated to skin
my friend, my friend he ��s black as a starless night
and me, I reflect every goddamn thing, so white I peal
and we hunger for our contrast
I see me alone, or alone with ��
some group of gene expression I fear by numbers and difference
waiting for them to begin the killing, megaphones and splendid sticks
tables turned, I await my friend ��s fist, comfort in knowing
his fist is at my back, mine at his
herein the stranger I fear, and how I fear my own!
and the answer, stranger �� I fear it all
only when the stranger is no longer stranger
when someone can cross the mind ��s dividing line
will the world be free �� and so I am to call him my friend
this beautiful starless man �� and to those who say this
that I ��m just another white son of a bitch
I reply �� this son of a bitch laughs at your skein
do not fear the enemy �� the enemy is too easily destroyed
fear yourself �� lest you become the very thing you fear
only you are the enemy in the end �� you and the act that slays you
I may just be a son of a bitch �� but it don ��t matter shit on my skin
action don ��t give a good goddamn whatever face you ��re born in
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