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The Naval Flag returned
Resurrected
Rising from the sea
Of White pain and Black freedom
Deconstructed Reconstruction
A KKK One
A Birth of Nation One
For Segregation
For White Pride
For Southern Heritage
Buried in state flags
South of the Dixie line
Flying on Capitol Grounds
South of North Carolina
Hanging high
A recolored One
In an Art Space
South of Houston
For a Remembering of Cries of Color
And a Flag of Treason and Terror
And before this flag
There were many
Lost in a Committee
Lost on the road to defeat
Lost in the imagination of southern swamps
Of flat Stars,
Of black Blues,
Bloody Reds
And washed out Whites
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