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Feeding the Minds of Starving Americana


Was it a curse to offer knowledge of innovation? Satisfaction of findings rest with a dying nation? If I could write a letter Let it address our intellect Transference of energies Brain blasts in retrospect Our fingers in our throats On word vomit we choke This nation shall die! A chronic incorrigible type sick Lest our minds we feed and our thoughts be enriched Our vision go blurry and recollection recurs that together our blood runs thick Because nowadays misfortune isn't Hispanic, White, or Black But the inability to know fiction from fact Add and subtract that There are more arrays of colors than rich white and poor black Let inequality be not the answer, nor pose the viable questions Let love teach valuable lessons Let not injustice impede the innovations of means to succeed
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ehawkins1406

Exploring life through the fundamentals of poetry and the likes. Learning the value of education, planting seeds of freedom to grow further.

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<p>i agree with you 100%</p><p>its essential to build minds faster as lupe fiasco&#39;s song</p><p>we must continue as&nbsp;a nation to spread the importance of education of infintie topics</p><p>your poem states your feelings and thoughts emphatically</p><p>keep writing and continue to expand your ideas</p><p>great job</p>
ehawkins1406
The importance of growing the minds of Americans and the American culture is dire. What makes each of us different links us all the same. Understanding each other is equally as important as understanding the confinements of textbooks. Education, in whatever form, is freedom.

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