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by Jammy
Rated: E · Poetry · Cultural · #1509792
A poem highlighting unwavering small-mindedness
1. Sir, why do you look at me as you do?
2. Sir, why do you bar my way?
3. Sir, is this not my place too?
4. Sir, do I not breathe as you do?
5. Sir, in which year do you confront me?
6. Sir, has nothing changed?

1. Boy, you don't deserve to stand before me. (I feel threatened because of my prejudice.)
2. Boy, you know the rules. (I am trapped in an age of social segregation.)
3. Boy, there is place only for you in Abaddon. (I fear Abaddon)
4. Boy, to breathe is not to live - first you must think, you must feel. (I am beginning to radiate self critisism unwittingly)
5. Boy, this is the twenty first century (I continue to live in 1980, like too many others)
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