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I couldn’t push yet yet not yet yet and then there appeared a a a a a pool of the bluest water We waited there for a a a a a a a breath
to to catch up and and and then it it did and and and she took it it that girl who was beautiful beyond dolphin dreaming and and and we we we made it we we we did to to the the the the other other side of suffering This is is is the the the the story our our mothers tell but we we we couldn’t hear it it in in our our ears stuffed with Barbie advertising with our mothers’ own loathing set in in in place by patriarchal scripture the the the smothering rules to to stop insurrection by domesticated slaves or wives It hurt everybody The fathers cannot know what they are feeling in in such a a a a a a a a spiritual backwash Worship
boxes set into place by the need for money and power will not beget freedom freedom freedom freedom Only warships For freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom freedom oh freedom freedom freedom freedom sang the the the the slaves the the the the oar rhythm of of the the the the blues lifting up the the the the spirits of of peoples whose bodies were worn out or or destroyed by a a a man’s slash hit of of greed This is is is our memory too said America Heredity is is is a a a a a a field of of blood celebration and forgetfulness Don’t take on on on on more than you can carry said the the the eagle to his twin sons fighting each other in in in in the the the sky over a a a a a fox dangling between
them It’s that time of the the year when we eat tamales