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"1619² (1+6+1+9 = 17)"
48x36
acrylic on canvas
$2,000
1619²
Naked on the block
Covered in a hungry blue
We’d rather bare skin.
The sun was heavy
Its knowing america
Will never be free.
1619 in Jamestown, VA the first enslaved African was sold. America has been the wealthiest country in the world since. All for forced, intimidated and free labor squeezed out of the melanin of the real black gold.
* there are 17 syllables in the poetic form senryu (and haiku)
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