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Unwoke?

by David Cleofas Avila

Un-woke?
Are you broke
On the rung of the
Evolutionary escalera—
What does it materia?
Who could be gladder
Than a racist
Who's madder
At the world
Coming together
Through love and peace,
When they pray for
Brown lives
To be badder—
Like worse off
Cause they get off
On hate & division,
See—I've had a vision
Of we being nothing
But earth-lee-ings...
What could be better?
Are we not but we?
But wokism
Makes ‘em crazier
Than a mad hatter
Trying to climb up
A Crisco covered ladder...