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FASTER THAN SAFECRACKERS

Faster than any safecracker,
the sun found apertures in the
stone cottage through which to
pour his lightgifts
*
PEOPLE AND PEEPHOLES

Warpropagandizing scandalmongering
pricegouging treefelling
pornographer prevaricator
trash-advertising
presslords..
try to force people
to spy through their peepholes

SENATOR SUMNER

In the long run
.. Senator Sumner
has beaten Rep Brooks
and
Fort Sumter..

but the eternal
call
of freedom for all
.. has not yet
been answered
by all

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Senator Charles Sumner,
most famed abolitionist
orator of the Senate,
was caned by Rep. Preston
Brooks of SC while
making a speech against
slavery. He took 3 years
to recover from the attack.
South Carolina remains
1 of the 9 Southern states with
the most racist patterns
of execution
http://www.cuadp.org

Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Horace Greeley,
Senator Sumner of Massachusetts
Susan B Anthony
and many more
played the trumpets
of the nation's conscience

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