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Underground

By Barack Obama
August 23, 2008
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In 1981, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wrote the following poem in the Occidental College campus literary magazine "Feast."

Under water grottos, caverns

Filled with apes

That eat figs.

Stepping on the figs

That the apes

Eat, they crunch.

The apes howl, bare

Their fangs, dance,

Tumble in the

Rushing water,

Musty, wet pelts

Glistening in the blue.

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