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Race. What a subject...

i just don't understand the hate

I had an open mic a few months back. A good friend of mine asked me to perform at her show she had built from scratch. I was eager to help, having performed at her show before (see 'Other Life') and had performed with (see 'Corpse Pose'). Anyway, I was there and I choked. I held back. I instantly wrote two new poems and read one decent poem, and another, lacking. I cursed myself for doing so. This poem is about that hesitation.

THE MIND IS A BEAUTIFUL THING....GREEDY45

I like to keep most of my poems short and sweet