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[jadams0044]

Slavery In America (1619-1865) Why Do You Keep Asking Us To Forget Our History When You Don't Ask Others To Forget Their History?

[bootietootie]

A poem for you

I never knew

How stubborn this thing is

How it persists

That it’s better than anything

That it knows everything

That there’s somewhere to arrive at

That it is really really important

That the sky will fall with out “I”

That the sun won’t rise

That the birds won’t Chirp

and the opposite of EVERYTHING in that song from “Rent”

Why is it so persistent 

That it never stops talking

That it is so strong,

Yet so disguised

That I recognize it as my own thought.

I now know,

But this knowing lasts a moment

and then it keeps talking

and like a battered wife

my eyes glaze over,

and I say yes of course

and I act as if

everything it tells me is the truth.