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PoliTicS And PoeTrY Dear Sarah Palin, Politics and poetry don’t mix Poets don’t see black and white The way some soccer moms see good and evil They see all the colors in between and the colors that go into making colors the colors they are Microtones between whole notes hapa notes, mixed-blood mutts and mongrels in polychromatic, polytechnicolor hues “He doesn’t see America the way you or I do!” They see afterglows and affirmations on rainbow cellar doors Aurora Borealises bouncing off hoops Fetuses coiled like bullets inside wombs of teenage moms with tattooed hips, food stamped footsoles and walled off barrios graffiti narratives outlaw miscarriages and 21 gram dreams Dear Sarah, Politics and poetry don’t mix Those who live in a world of winners and losers, saints and sinners for whom, dogma barks know to slice their bread but never to cover their shit —Genny Lim ...

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