Salute
Sensitive Content
This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.There are things in this country too—
And if they find no streetlamp pole,
There will be a tree—and that means clearly
That a Negro over twenty years old
May hate all things which spire
To hold a man for his hanging.
But the one whose death I saw
Was not even fifteen years old.
The white old maid was not sweet at all.
The rusty lock on an old…
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