Charlie-Tann's Sonnet

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Since I can't write, call your deft words 'pretty'
that do not rant about about the state of play,
but to besmirch, turn my words to shitty,
Charlatan I am, backward in dismay.

I do forget that what we should defend:
Palestinian olive trees, happiness,
against the dark destroyers, who offend
little girls and boys loving prettiness...

But in my pig-hating slough, religion,
which I kick against, has seized so my mind.
I come from US, a backward nation,
where our habit has grown deeply unkind.

I say I am enlightened but I strain
to slacken in my darkness my deep chain.

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