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  01:17

  47th President Poetry Reading: Prelud...

  47th President Poetry Reading: Prelud...

  Poetry Performed by Val Cole
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  Prelude to “Don Lost”

  All maidens, far and fair—beware—
  The sadist, Don John has appeared!
  So, be woke, kids.
  He approaches.

  This pimp of prestige,
  A truth-twisting tyrant,
  The Baron of blackmail;
  Democracy’s defilement.

  Committer of incalculable
  depravities....

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  01:51

  DEATH Poem: death is smaller than i i...

  DEATH Poem: death is smaller than i i...

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  01:29

  BALLAD Poetry Reading: the brushfire,...

  BALLAD Poetry Reading: the brushfire,...

  Peformed by Val Cole

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  the brushfire

  if all the injuries were just words of smoke,
  dawn could falter but still would come before
  you’d have the timber from the fallen oak.

  the sputter of the mourning land and folk
  who cry and burn, lament and then deplore,
  if all the injuries were just w...