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We Can’t Breathe By:Astarea J. Wright Learn 8
We can’t breathe
when we are put in chokeholds
when we smell the smoke from cigarettes
We can’t breathe
when we think of Martin Luther King and what he did to change the world
when we think of young folks getting killed for no reason
when we think of people who tried to help the world
We can’t breathe
when love ones are shot and killed
when people are not doing anything about it
when we just laugh about it
We can’t breathe
when young ones are not thinking about the importance about the world
when people want to murder one another
when we want to kill ourselves
WE CAN’T BREATHE,WE CAN’T BREATHE,WE CAN’T BREATHE !!!