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Kathleen_cross
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Username: Kathleen_cross

Post Number: 13
Registered: 01-2004

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Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 04:09 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

For Us, By Us

kneel beside her now
this brown sister
sweat drenched
work weary
perpetually underfed

taste a drop of her sorrow
this Creator's child
leg shackled
to desperation
freedom be her dread

ache to lift her burden
workhorse woman
baby tied
to bowed back
with rags from massa's wife

scream out justice for this
soul survivor
hands weary
scarred and wageless
clinging to so-called life

we could end her slavery
invisible daughter
piece-worker
anonymous
sweatshop whore

call her name, haiti
dominca, mexico
she be nafta's slave
serving two gods
hers, and, yes, brother, yours

condemn her masters
karan, levi,
brooks brothers
and, sadly,
your own f.u.b.u

hey, brother
she's your sister,
your mother
hey
brother

nice suit

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Rondall
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Username: Rondall

Post Number: 45
Registered: 01-2004

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Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 05:51 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hot damn!!! We have a winna!!! Kathleen you had me through the whole joint. Nice twist on that ending.

Loving you to do more...much more. And thank you so much for not forcing NO rhymes. I applaud you sister and I am throughing away my FUBU.
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Lambd
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Username: Lambd

Post Number: 607
Registered: 01-2004

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Posted on Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 06:01 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I aint throwing away my FUBU. Still I like your rythm...I may be crazy, but I like your rythm and your rhyme. Be it forced or otherwise, your rhyme was strong, and I felt it. Mas! Mucho mas!
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Cuba_va
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Username: Cuba_va

Post Number: 7
Registered: 10-2004

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Posted on Wednesday, November 03, 2004 - 08:48 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Lovely. I'm feelin that transition and your contrast and comparison. Word play, unforgettable. Please feed us more.

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