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i august	A
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arrived in a boat named	B
and unnamed twenty pirated	C
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away from a portuguese	D
slaver traded for victuals	D
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drowned in this land of fresh	E
volatile clearings and folk	F
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with skin like melted	G
cowrie shells soon shedding	H
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servitude soon reaping	H
talents sown on african soil	I
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after indenture christians	D
colonists not english but	J
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not yet not white antoney	K
and isabella whose marriage	L
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stretched the short shadows	D
of america's early afternoon	K
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into the dusky reaches of evening	H
whose conjugal coitus spent	M
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first the choice coin of africa	N
on rough virginian citizenship	O
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baptized their son william	P
into the church of england	Q
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ii december	R
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fear must have shuddered	S
into boston on the backs	D
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of true believers men and	Q
women of an unadorned god	T
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deep in the heavy black fabric	U
of their coats and dresses like	V
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a stench black a mark of	W
pride they wore as if branded	C
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never dreaming they could	X
take it off envy anticipated	G
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their advent glittered at them	Y
settling in from the knife	Z
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blades of the massachusetts	D
seeped like low pitched	A2
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humming from the fur	R
lining the natives' warm	B2
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blankets but desire docked	C2
in in from the harbor	R
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flocked a people whose eyes	D
sparked like stars even near	D2
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death whose hair promised	A
a mixture of cotton and river	R
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water and vines a texture	R
the fingers ached for who	E2
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wholly inhabited a skin the	N
midnight color of grace	D
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that clarified the hue of the	N
pilgrims' woolen weeds fear	D2
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and envy claimed pride of place	D
put desire's cargo to good use	D
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iii march	F2
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that night crispus attucks	D
dreamed how he'd attacked	G2
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his would be master and fled	H2
in wild eyed search of self	I2
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determination discarded	C
virginia on the run and ran	K
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out of breath in salt scented	C
boston found there if not	J2
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freedom fearlessness a belief	K2
in himself that rocked things	D
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with the uncontrolled power	R
of the muscular atlantic power	R
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to cradle to capsize awoke	F
angry again at the planter	R
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who'd taken him for a mule	L2
or a machine had shouldered	S
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a chip the size of concord	M2
by the time the redcoat dared	N2
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to dare him died wishing he'd	O2
amassed such revolutionary	P2
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ire in virginia died dreaming	H
great britain was the enemy	P2
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iv july th last	Q2
but not least	R2
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and still	S2
this celebration's shamed	B
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with gunpowder and words	D
that lie like martyrs in cold	T2
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blood africa's descendents	D
planting here year after year	D2
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the seeds of labor sweating	H
bullets in this nation's warts	D
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have harvested the rope	U2
the rape the ghetto the cell	V2
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the fire the flood and the	N
blame for you name it so	D
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today black folks barbeque	E2
ribs and smother the echoes	D
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of billie's strange song in	K
sauces drink gin gladly	P2
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holiday to heckle speeches	D
on tv pretend to parade	W2
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turn out in droves for distant	X2
detonations chaos controlled	T2
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as always but directed	G
away from us tonight stare	Y2
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into the mirror of the sky	Z2
at our growing reflection	K
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boggled by how america	N
gawks at the passing pinpoints	D
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of flame but overlooks the vast	Q2
ebony palm giving them shape	A3

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