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New
Year's Resolution
By Marcus
B. Christian
Slowly I nailed this
fenceboard up --
A black boy broke it
down,
Jumping this
nine-foot fence when chased
By drunkards of the
town.
-- A boy just over
fourteen
Broke it in frantic
flight,
Eluding drunken
hoodlums
On the Eve of
Christmas night.
Taunted and jeered,
he struck back
And forgot the final
cost
And so, the white
men ganged him
And everything was
lost.
Fiercely I nail this
fenceboard up
And swear -- by
wrongs made blind --
There'll not be
broken fenceboards
In the trail I'll leave behind.
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