I
GOT
MY REVENGE

By Joe Navarro

I found a way To get back
At those suckers,
Those peddlers
Of browm ignorance,
Those profiteers
Of class exploitation

I showed them;
Those who would
Sacrifice poor people
And dark people
To the cycles
Of poverty

I beat them
With my pride
I struck against
Mighty institutions
With th brute force
Of intelligence

They kicked me out
And tried to
Kick me down
Hoping to leave me
In the darkness
Of social madness
But I found light
Anyway

I got by revenge
Me, this pushed out,
Locked out
Target of cultural genocide;
I got my revenge
. . . By becoming
A teacher

    

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