he comes out
with Twitter photo
head bowed, arm raised
right fist clenched in midair
trying hard to appropriate
Tommie Smith and John Carlos in 1968
at the Mexico City Olympics
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Tommie and John were fighting
for something bigger, more important
than the determination to drug and rape
and have no compassion for the sixty victims
plus the money and the iron will
to insist on getting out of prison early
on a technicality previously judged not strong enough
to stop the trial which sent him to prison
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let the gaslight TV interview victory lap begin
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