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Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
remind me of five hundred
middle passage blacks,
...

In 1915 my grandfather's
neighbors surrounded his house
near the dayline he ran
...

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Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
remind me of five hundred
middle passage blacks,
in a net, under water
in Charleston harbor
so redcoats wouldn't find them.
Can't find what you can't see
can you?

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