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Bat Powers posted in the group National Poetry Month
Here we are banning books about Rosa Parks
while the Pastor dresses in drag on Sunday
spewing a sermon of love that sounds more like hate
then goes home to berate his wife and children
but that’s o.k. he asked for forgiveness
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Read MoreI sat alone in the church pews with my head bowed, hands clasped so tight my knuckles ached, whisperin' prayers into the stillness. I asked the good Lord to forgive me. For my weaknesses, for my sins, for stayin'...
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Read MoreThe 2000s began to unfurl themselves across Harlem, not with the explosive force of a revolution but with the slow, creeping inevitability of a tide rising inch by inch, I felt the change long before the people around me...
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Bat Powers posted in the group National Poetry Month 2027
Goodbye
They we were
You and I
Hood up on your 87 Mazda
Rain pouring down
Pouring down
On bad decisions
Bad decisions
Black shiny asphalt
White lines
Thinking we really fucked up this time
Made it back to the lake house
Soaked to the bone
Your pretty face
Made me forget about it all
If I could do it again
I’d walk every step, e…Read More - Load More Posts
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