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Are we just Pawns

Keith Lankford 1964 (AL)

                   The Truth Ministry
                America’s new religion
               Preaching day and night
                  Servicing indecision
                    Making it all Right
                                Cut
                                Cut
                              Take II
                          Censorship
                Corporate competition
       Mainstream stomping and lynching
        Slashed fact cleansing and rinsing
        Are we just pawns so easily fooled

It is written to form the shape of a chess pawn.

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The Elite and the working class

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Written on June 01, 1964

Submitted by Keithdalankford on November 11, 2021

Modified by Keithdalankford on November 11, 2021

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Scheme xababCCxxaddx x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 563
Words 55
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 1
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