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The Times it is a changling

What bogeyman transformed the old
Gray lady into a black/white bully?

Once upon a time, She would afflict
the comfortable and comfort the afflicted –

But today, gorged on human eyeballs,
He baits us with the new math: 1776 = 1619.

H.B. Rea

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