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POEM: MLK Day

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MLK Day

all these feet and fingers and hearts and brains
all these lungs and muscles and nerves and veins
all in the service of the greater good

in these times, making art is a revolutionary act
beauty is a power that can vanquish despair
“this machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender”

if a banjo can change the course of history
imagine what all of us together could do
building a new world, one street corner at a time

21 January 2013
Auburn, AL

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PHOTO: Poets and others gather on Toomers Corner on MLK Day. [Photo by Brennen Reece]

Published in Auburn My poems Poem-A-Day 2013 Poetry Politics & Activism

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