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Taking Refuge in Fort Mose

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one of the Two Evil nomination spots

but failed, due to blowhard bagpipe

letdown syndrome (BBLS), has ponied up cash

to buy back Black votes in Florida rashly

tossed again by felonious monks

who just can't cotton

to any t-shirt that says MeToo

#
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Back in the day

Fort Mose was a place of repose

for runaway slaves -- even the conquistadoran

mothafuckin torquemandolins

gave refuge to runaway felons of color,

long before they fed the gators

with chad pulp and plantation disease

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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