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The weak spots into which viruses snuggle
The crevices where germs acutely crawl
Carrying the diseases they smuggle
Accompanied by bacteria and all
The inner workings and specific functions
On which every body just depends
That has to be considered in conjunction
With all that the immune system defends
They turn the body to a battleground
Where endless skirmishes have to be fought
Because in order for health to be sound
It has to be both preserved and sought
To all its sneak attackers with their challenges
The body must respond with proper balances
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The proper balance means the proper rest
The proper food, the proper exercise
And proper cleanliness is also best
When we are dealing with our selves health-wise
Without these proper balances in force
Discomforts and disorders and diseases
Will soon assign you health recovery chores
And medical expenditure increases
The body is a most intricate scheme
With lots of aims and claims and nomenclature
That should be like a gently flowing stream
If it is kept according to its nature
Health depends on proper balance, yes
Doing nothing at all to excess
3
How often was health completely destroyed
By substances encountered to get high
Something at first meant to be enjoyed
Something just to be enchanted by?
Something that then turned on health to grab it
And hold it in the clutches of addiction
Run through the ruthless rigors of a habit
Something identical to an affliction
A habit can become a lethal lover
Through amplification of demands
The problem then for health is to recover
Once it has fallen in addiction’s hands
The life preserved in such a situation
Will then be thanks to rehabilitation
4
Nothing has greater value than good health
No other aspect of life qualifies
No wide renown nor benefits of wealth
No higher education, no grand prize
Is comparable in life’s evaluation
By nothing can we be more gratified
Because health brings its own gratification
A sense of being truly satisfied
To have your body in cooperation
With its own best interests and desires
Is the key to- self-appreciation
The foremost thing your happiness requires
There is no better story you can tell
Than truly saying, “I feel very well”
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Good health is an unmitigated blessing
Especially when compared to being sick
Is worthy of the cost of its possessing
And that includes the Body Politic
A body has to go with its own flow
Receiving nourishment, removing waste
Allowing itself ample room to grow
The future of the future being faced
Will benefit from having the health stable
In the body in which it has grown
A body to be then considered able
To take care of itself all on its own
A blessing of incomparable wealth
Is the blessing of excellent health
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Integrity is something of importance
Exclusively to those people who have it
A quality completely in accordance
With those who have made honesty a habit
But they who do not guard good reputations
They who will risk getting caught in a lie
Unfaithful in their personal relations
Integrity to them does not apply
It will be given no consideration
In competition with self-interest
Integrity will upon such occasion
Become disqualified. A “No Contest”
By anyone possessed of a “forked tongue”
A song that is sincere is seldom sung
7
America is about to fall apart
As the result of being misbegotten
Conceived in a corruption from the start
Now causing it to turn completely rotten
Incapable of doing what it says
Because of doing what caused it to grow
The heroics America portrays
Are from its good old “dog and pony show”
And now the show is done. The curtains fall
The inner workings of the tricks revealed
The sham no longer holds us in its thrall
The truth can now no longer be concealed
And what is to result from this collapse?
A Phoenix rising from ashes… perhaps
8
There is danger of a nervous breakdown
From coming in close contact with the facts
Details of a big inter-racial shakedown
Including some sharp change-of-heart attacks
Brought on once the fact had been known
That a fatal mistake has been made
The fact that not until now has it shown
Proves America has been betrayed
In the very delicate condition
The nation is in concerning race
Our taking independent position
That would blow its mind right to its face
Some would want to begin pulling triggers
To shoot down all you ungrateful niggers
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One day we weren’t citizens, next day we were
That is what the United States claims
But now back to facts it must defer
So in one day remove all of our names
From the rolls of U.S. Citizens
Where legally we never should have been
Refer to us as “U. S. Denizens”
In the political role we are in
The U.S. government’s move to include
The slaves among its subjects as it did
Became “involuntary servitude”
Was by the 13th Amendment forbid
In addition to a reparation
Reimbursement’s due for trickeration
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U. S. Denizens we are who dwell
Within the borders of the U.S.A.
Which legally as far as we can tell
Is not a place we are required to stay
We are free to cross its border should we wish
It is where we for centuries domiciled
And have previously sought to accomplish
Equality. But now are reconciled
To the dictates of the color line
Am in grateful, willing acquiescence
As you all go your way and we go mine
No longer confined to each other’s presence
Transported forward toward better days
We each are going to put in better plays