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Nicholas Gordon
Clearly, I was a person of my times,
One who treated races not my own
Like savages, sub-humans. Now my crimes
Understandably must stand alone,
Must, like Washington's, like Jefferson's,
Be seen as though memorialized in stone,
Unfit for celebration, the preference
Switched to those whose brutal genocide
Deserves far more than I to be remembered.
A plea for context, though: the seas I plied
Yielded up a future I engendered.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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