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Chijike K Ndukwu

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Who Am I
by Chijike K Ndukwu → (All Poetry by Chijike K Ndukwu)
Tuesday, August 1, 2017    Rated "G" by the Author.
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To the people who profit from the prison industrial complex, citizens especially people of color are worth a lot in dollars coming to prison than become law-abiding and free.

I am a people

In the belly of the beast

Free but vanguished

Like a hen in a pen

Watermark crossheirs

On my forehead

Tarries all day long

Reminds me aloud

I am dollar bills

On the plates of Wardens

In the coffers of my county

On the slate shelfs

Within high walls

Crossheirs on GPS

Reminds me softly

My worthlessness

As a doctor

Or Dog catcher

When I am free

Dollar rain stops

Who the hell am I


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