I read three poems at the open-mic and I thought they went down well.
A serious one about how the expression ‘a barrel of laughs’ comes from the days when the slaves would bury their heads in a bucket of water just so they could laugh, no joy was allowed to flow down on the cotton fields.
The second was a bit more trivial, but important to me. About how B…
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