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Gentrifical Force.(Brief Article)(Poem)

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| November 01, 2005 | Murray, Les | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
GENTRIFICAL FORCE 
 
   Gentrifical force, gentrifical force: 
   that's an ex-convict on his own horse 
   with a new white wife and the black one gone 
   with his first children to a far station. 
 
   Then race and real estate took a joint course 
   and white ladies held the gentrifical line 
   that ran up through sheaves to raise the bricks 
   which would become every ...
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