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And then, we get a
little more political.

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And this next poem has to do
with the middle of the country

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where people feel they
are being ignored.

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And that harms them.

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And it's still the case.

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Demonstration in plague time.

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They call their region the
flyover states, states of trash,

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cockroaches, disposals.

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Today they are demonstrating
against vaccination.

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It's all about anger, isn't it?

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Anger and hurt beneath it.

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The disrespect.

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The disrespect
hurts like anything.

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Halo of piquant
mosquitoes humming.

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They are dying of the rank,
disrespect, dying of disease,

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drink, and drugs, suicide.

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If anyone has arms long enough
to reach past the anger,

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to embrace the hurt, that
alligator in your belly,

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that repetitive mockery.

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If the magic of love
exists anywhere.

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Let us imagine a superhero
president, pulling it out

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of his sleeve, a
rainbow scarf, a mitten

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from the cedar chest
of a painful childhood.

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They say, that is
what Jesus did.

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Simply reached out to the hurt
with arms like tree boughs.

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Fingers like springtime petals.

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