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Undiscovered Genius

January 17, 2017
By hephillips SILVER, Flowery Branch, Georgia
hephillips SILVER, Flowery Branch, Georgia
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I am an undiscovered genius of the Mississippi Delta,
forced here from my homeland.
Sickles, forks, and axes, the tools I know too well.
I am a bluesman,
made blue by the hands of my masters.
Sugar, tobacco, corn, the crops I know too well.
Trapped in the dark,
the darkness of my pain.
Twenty-seven,
Twenty-seven hours I work in the fields.
Slaving away just to die,
die as nothing more than an undiscovered genius of the Mississippi Delta.



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