<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Who Bury Your Poets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">America....<br>you who bury your poets<br>like fallen leaves beneath weeping trees.<br>like the sound of the tire<br>that strikes the stray cat.<br>like the trembling dark skinned hands<br>you ban from your voting booths.<br>like the flag draped caskets<br>of your sacrificed young.<br>like the books you burn<br>with religious fervor....<br>like the shuffle of boots<br>in your unemployment lines.<br>like the faceless ones<br>in your clinics shutting down.<br>like the ones who speak out, <br>then suddenly disappear.<br>like the crack pipes and needles<br>of your 'worthless' poor....<br>like the babies born to babies<br>in your rat infested government housing.<br>like your Native Americans<br>in your 'poverty prisons'....<br>like the angry young men<br>you put behind bars.<br>like the hungry child sleeping<br>in the back of a broke down car.<br>like your factory ghosts<br>haunting empty shells.<br>like your foreclosed farms, <br>the fields left to crows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">America, <br>you who bury your poets, <br>and dance drunkenly in empty rooms, <br>neath the shadow of the noose<br>your indifference tied!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389731" data-title="You Who Bury Your Poets de Eric Cockrell" data-description="America.... you who bury your poets like fallen leaves beneath weeping trees. like the sound of the tire that strikes the stray cat. like the trembling dark skinned hands you ban from your voting booths. like the flag draped caskets of your sacrif..."></div> </div> </div>

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