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JOURNAL #14 the ideal spectrum on which we believe to ride
lies in the flushed aftermath
ill from whats too often applied
no real reason so strange could ever be screened
the near brutality of mass make believe draws
a half hopeful conclusion
only to be labeled obscene
the skin should make no case nor difference in such
an age of numerous advances
yet where one is offered a future of much promise
countless others receive only the news of slim
and slimmer chances
Just what have we done and to whom have we over
and over again fully done it
these very words only scald further pain from a
biased society of supposed equal opportunity
in the eyes of the estranged many
who once upon an era
would never have dreamed to one day shun it
equality huh! it was in the end just another
government pipe dream
and this is what 1964 let us dissolve into
an over flowing melting pot
where most of the white foam as always
rises to the top
leaving nothing but bitterness in the forgotten
residue.......................
(Aug. 22, 1995)
