Free at Last: A Juneteenth PoemAfter 300 years of forced bondage; hands bound, descendants of Africapicked up their souls all that they owned leaving shackles where they fell on the ground,headed for the nearest resting place to be found Deeply emotional, evocative free verse by poet and activist Sojourner Kincaid Rolle traces the solemnity and celebration of Juneteenth from its 1865 origins in Galveston, Texas to contemporary observances all over the United States. This is an ode

For the Paynes

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And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time

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And she saw it as a land of opportunity

His mom loves bragging about her successful son--how can he admit that the job she's so proud of broke him

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