James McLain Poems

Before the first big bang there was what?
Where were we for
four and a half billion year's.
Long before we were born.
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Living in poverty men learn to die.
In the hot southern sun,
black children wither like grapes
on the vine.
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Except for our once unbreakable spirit
our laughter is gone.
Republicans,
through fear have set U.S up against one another.
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She showed U.S. more promise than this,
before he went limp he was wise.
Do not kick up a fuss for me, I left no note.
I shan't come back wait and see.
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Once I was beautiful
I had friends
looking down on what
I once was
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Of Such my life once was although
I know that yours was not.
Some how the paint ran through the
board's of which I sit against.
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Red paint and white wash,
there is a power play, for what
is wrong.
Babies sleep
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I have a driver's permit,
and use word's while I drive like
Cuz and u-r and b-f-f.
Being the new upwards and mobile
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The more I drank the thirstier I became.
Not only U.S.
but here where we lay, others would come
to sleep as well.
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Silenced from above
those whom
would silence me are
all around U.S.
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