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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STATUS QUO, by H. BINGA DISMOND First Line: Let bourbons fight for status quo Last Line: Without a vestige of jim crow. Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry | |||
Let Bourbons fight for status quo And battle to maintain jim crow A mere short span -- they can decide With whom we eat; with whom we ride; With whom we march; with whom we die. But they stay not time's endless rust When they and we will end in dust, And all in final chemistry Become as one immutably And shall remain a status quo -- Without a vestige of jim crow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK WOMAN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FOREDOOM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON I MUST BECOME A MENACE TO MY ENEMIES by JUNE JORDAN A SONG FOR SOWETO by JUNE JORDAN ON THE LOSS OF ENERGY (AND OTHER THINGS) by JUNE JORDAN POEM ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE by JUNE JORDAN DRAFT OF A RAP FOR WEN HO LEE by JUNE JORDAN THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES by BOB KAUFMAN THE MYSTIC RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL SIMON SURNAMED PETER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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