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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 16