Poem
American History 101
Inspired by the current uproar over critical race theory
Let’s get this straight,
America. You disenfranchise and
terrorize a whole race
for over three-hundred years. Ban
them from your undeserved
privileges for the next one-hundred
years. Disproportionately
fill your prison cells with us through
the present. Yet, you resent
that we don’t applaud your history —
when you know this country
was built on the fruits of our labor.
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2021 Michael Hall is a creative, who is the creator and curator of The Bazaar of the Bizarre and a submissions editor for The POM, living in Illinois, but also soul traveling on the same astral plane as Lingua and the W.A.V.E. Kollectiv, because We Are the Voice(s) of Expression versus oppression and the powers that be…by any dreams necessary, and as Albert Camus said, “to create is to live twice.”
