Black Bernie Sanders
"Black Bernie" couldn't win the presidency. Could he win a poetry contest?
You call it a "multiracial coalition"
When we livin' in a f'd up system
I'm 23, home St. Louis, Misery
Police already shot and missed me
Medicare for All
I feel it in my kidney
Tired of being broke, I want everything for free
Black Bernie, Black Bernie!
Didn't win for president but still running the streets
Used to like KD
'Til he cheated on his team
Don't care now
'Cause I caught COVID-19
Now I'm at the hospital
Lookin' super cheap
I made history
First to breakthrough the vaccine
Can't taste my food
Now I'm super lean
I still have a dream
Like Martin Luther King
Ballot or the bullet
We're shooting for a fee!
I'll take five thousand dollars
And share it where there's need.
Black Bernie, Black Bernie!
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By Brandon Ford4 years ago in Fiction
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