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………….listen as the boot-black
snaps his cloth across the shoes
of a white dandy
diddling liberty and freedom
in his palm —a black
bootblack on an early Fourth
listen as a cop clicks
off a round or two
into a car through epidermis
laden with more melanin
than white flesh holds
listen to the striped flag
slap a nearby flagpole
in the July cold
Jim Culleny
7/4/17
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