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A poem about America's selective amnesia when it comes to teaching its history, and the not-so-distant past of January's insurrection

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Donney Rose
May 07, 2021
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america. your selective amnesia is rich...while you twist yourself in knots in an attempt to blot out the bloodlust of your history to avoid soiling school curricula, you seem to have forgotten that it has not even been a whole semester since your sons rummaged the rotunda, smeared shit throughout your hallowed h…

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