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The Five Stages of Grief

A poem
By E. Ethelbert Miller
May 2012
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Denial
This has nothing to do with blackness.
This has everything to do with blackness.

Anger
I could break things
but everything is broken.

Bargaining
Maybe I should have left
with the slave catchers.

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