"But what do you mean, wear the protective lead shielding?"

Today a man came to our school
l in order to discuss the problems
of black history month;
and the over exuberance that we face
and our problems,
which would take longer than just a month
to explain
And even though I did not think or believe
that what he was saying or trying to conceive
would have any emotional bearing and he'd leave
without causing me to grieve,
I was wrong

For though he talked and talked about
simple social problems and what
god would and could and should look like
and how we'd treat that woulda coulda shoulda
but didn't
and the way that our rents would sacrifice
their whole lives just to be with us
the simpletons of life and of an entirely new level
show me the reason we've got to not appreciate them
and i'll take

Of course anything i write will be simply unspoken word
going to ears which are not listening
to either me or to themselves, or to he
and we will fall from grave eventually unless we try
to commit suicide of this simple way of life
and be prepared to both be reborn,
and make ourselves be reborn
then we'll find both peace
and love
through the desensitization.

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wow, i went on for a while didn't i?