Poems by Alex

There used to be a lot of discrimination
But Martin Luther King ended the segregation
In the U.S. everything turned fun
But in Africa there is none
The economy is really low
And trying to raise it takes slow
The people are all slaves
And the kids don’t play any games
All they do is work
They can’t even eat any pork
But no one gets paid
And eventually the people begin to fade


In Africa it’s not that fun being black
They carry you around like a sack
You have to go this way and that way
And there’s practically nothing you can say
All you can see are waves
Of nothing but slaves
The kids can’t even go to the arcade
Because the people barely get paid.