Notes after Watching the Inauguration
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Notes after Watching the Inauguration

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 23, 20263 min
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I walk campus and wonder if I'm standing on an unmarked grave.

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I wonder again this time if violence is a remix of what the making of America is while white boys blare music.

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My name is KB Brookins and this is Notes after watching The Inauguration. I walk campus and wonder if I'm standing on an unmarked grave. Are we under concrete, grass, or any other forced terrains? I wonder again this time if violence is a remix of what the making of America is while white boys blare music.

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They use MAGA banners as decoration on white walls down the hall from Starbucks. Is Starbucks a stand-in for brother? Time is a mark of body decay and not much else. Before I was a poet, I was a lineage.

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One that asked questions of the diner when they didn't let us in. in, one asking if I like my mocha with the white chocolate as white girls celebrate victory. Who wins when I decide white? Before I was human, I was free, which is the healthiest of human abstractions. Free has the best marketing team. I am the violence that forced itself

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