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Freedom of Corruption
November 21, 2011
A pawn
In this game
Of chess.
Left on the riverside;
Paddling without direction,
Seeing colors of
Every spectrum,
Hearing sounds
Of crashing rapids.
The scent of iron
Splashing with the water.
Lady Liberty loves me;
I am her son,
I am her trouble.
An itch
On the back
Of a corrupt system;
a blue-collar
in a white-collar senate;
a dog in a fish bowl.
I am not cooperate,
I swim against
their strong stream.
Stealing stares
off of their faces.
I am Hippie Woodstock,
I am a rock,
They are the rapids.
© Matt H., Gulfport, MS
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