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First Line: AFRICAN GUARDIAN OF SOULS
Last Line: Amen / shouts hosanna
Subject(s): BLACKS; RACISM; RACIAL PREJUDICE; BIGOTRY;
African Guardian of Souls,
Drunk with rum,
Feasting on strange cassava,
Yielding to new words and a weak palabra
Of a white-faced sardonic god--

Grins, cries
Amen,
Shouts hosanna.



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