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The value of my life, a coconut.”

Staff Reporter by Staff Reporter
September 8, 2020
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Chopped with the same tenacity,

Gushing from me not water and jelly,

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But bloody Xs upon my black husk.

The value of my life, a coconut?

I went to search and find,

Yet for me they’ll search and find

And find me dropped and marked a sign.

My life was not a coconut.

I wasn’t sweet to my vendor,

There was nothing about me he enjoyed.

Discarding, not a coconut but just another black boy.

 

Regards
Malik Lewis (23 years)

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