VOX Teen Poetry: “Finding Wakanda”
Alia-Holt
February 14, 2018
“R.I.P. to your burst bubble
Before, you thought we were trouble
This movie dragged us out the rubble
And had you colonizers
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Before, you thought we were trouble
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And had you colonizers
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