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Good afternoon.
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My name is Wendell Otley, and um, I want to thank you first before I start, since I won't when I'm finished.
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Um, my poem is Damnation.
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Come from behind the protection of the white sheets you've worn, the piles of the ashes of the crosses you've burned, the
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stinking rotting corpses of the niggers you've lynched, and face your damnation.
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Pretend that my problems don't exist, that I'm just bitching for no reason in particular.
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That I'm full of shit, and you will face damnation.
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Continue to show an abundance of my negative side, without giving equal weight to my positive.
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To show me as a menace to society, but find no faults in the society I menace.
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To arrest me for committing a blue collar crime, but acquit yourself of white collar crimes.
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And you will suffer damnation.
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Ask, why am I not happy being a lower case letter in your capitalistic system?
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Why am I not satisfied with the rats and roaches that come with low income housing?
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Why am I not filled from head to toe with hot dog and apple pie chanting USA every four years patriotism?
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And I will say, because I didn't ask to come to this damn nation.
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