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Good little monkey


No one decides

Who tells their story

Not the little turtle who grew 

the tree in the ground, 

or the Middle class

working from the ground up

While the turtle gave 

to his little monkey friend

The system took all the working had

The monkey ate all of the delicious bananas

and the system took 

all of the delicious freedon

But the turtle and we

know who grew the tree

(based on the Filipino folklore story the monkey and the turtle)

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