You’d have to cut truce
outta these urban bonds
between men whose friends
are needle points and miscalculated anger
punched into brick
some opportunist dick built
to cage a generation’s worth
of humanity profiled by race
of differences differentiated only by intellectuals
whose worth makes it their while
to textbook the reason
why poor people gotta be destined to this shit
and hating their own similarities
to those desperate or gettin’ there
with a planned pride and shame
some do-good-er might call an adjustment to the law
or time taking its time
to set free an already free mind.
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