photo credit: George Roberts

Politics

 by J. Otis Powell!

Emancipation stories told

 

One

 

By one

 

Can only add up

 

                           To a dysfunctional

 

                  Sum

 

When told in parenthesis

                 

To explain woe

 

The parenthetical is divided

 

Conquered

 

The nouveau riche

 

Separated from itself

 

Like an amoeba

 

Becoming a mystery again

 

The wealthy looks

 

Down on the rich

 

Then withholds reparations

 

From former slaves