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Déjà Vu in the Homeland

Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
Los Angeles Times readers submitted their views in verse for a feature dedicated to opinion poetry.
(Anthony Russo / For The Times )
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They taught us in school that a Red

Was a person one really should dread:

They spied on one’s mail,

Banished suspects to jail —

Perhaps we’d be better off dead.

The author was poet laureate of Louisiana from 2011 to 2013.

Read more: Opinion poetry by Times readers


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