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life 1 min read 770 views Mar 14, 2016

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Hold soil in the studded mouths of complete strangers. In danger of losing a limb in a war without walls. Forced isolation on the tip of the tongue of bigots with digits. Graceful cannibals who enjoy finger sandwiches. As we sit down on plastic chairs,eat on paper plates. All sh##t that gets thrown away after the party. Listen to complete strangers taught to forget names remember faces, tell good lies in thirty minute intervals. Make us smile slap our knees and wait for the punch line. Us, stacked five deep, making love to recycled beats,grinning through clinched teeth. Clicking African sounds reverberate, speaking to people, anonymous like hotel soap that never seems to clean your fingernails. Blackmailed black males cant afford bail, massa build bigger jail. Some dwell in split level hell, air conditioning their psychosis. Goose step to constitutional cadence right wing dreams of white Christmas caused by soft money, soft core, safety sealed for your protection. Political prostitutes in blue suits ride low on the hog.....

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Kewayne Wadley

Great write Coal house. Raw and uncut!

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LP45

Deep! Full fledged reality.

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Coalhouse

Thanks for the validation. It means a lot coming from my fellow artists. .

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