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Someone earlier today
asked me something

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about political
poetry, and so I'll

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read an example of my effort
at writing political poems.

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This was a long time ago.

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It's called "A Short
Speech to the Hungry."

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It's not appropriate because
most people aren't hungry

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anymore.

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I don't know.

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"Because so many children
dream the full moon is

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a bowl of milk, if
you forget your hands,

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those wonderful roots, you
feel your right mind fail.

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Unlike the bee stuck to its
hod, you see creation in a cloud

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and fear the wind that tears
orchard, field, and mankind

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down.

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While the celery's
green fountains rust,

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you, for whom the Earth
has no concern, must think.

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We live in our belts and we
have been like the blind ant who

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pulls his daily ton in company.

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The smile that
ripens for a friend.

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The word that strengthens
us like bread.

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Rot in the mouths of hungry men.

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When the satisfied say
the wind, the wind,

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you will understand who tears
orchard, field, and mankind

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down.

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