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Rated: E · Poetry · Cultural · #2085897
Very short poem on racism. There's more to it than meets the eye.
I saw a bluebird bathing in a pond today,
with a cardinal cloaked in red.
Then the red bird choked the blue jay,
until they both were dead.

And they just said,

"If only"
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