Anna B
@annabwriting
Anna B
@annabwriting
Too Late The Truth
Haki R. Madhubuti
who quieted the fourth estate,
took words, images, and liberating ideas
from the recently comatosed and stole the nation?
why was there not a storm among us
confronting the wealth of ignorance?
what is the price of deceptive and enriched silence?
who compromised the music of truth,
the poetry of deep thought?
what of
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