By Button Poetry
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Sagirah Shahid performing at Inside Voices in Minnesota.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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we prayed for our children to have clean
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drinking water for the lead to be sifted
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out throat by throats we got a gun we
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prayed for homes that did not blister
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the grant our grandmothers at night our
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burst at the seams window screen by
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window screen we got a gun we prayed for
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an EM –let to shield our students for
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some juju to mirror back the poison of
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this air lung by lung we held our
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breaths with our necks bowed and ready
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to receive this molten miracle we got a
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gun and the gun said let there be a hem
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stitching your mouth shut
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[Applause]
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