Read the excerpt from "Jabari Unmasked” by Nikki Grimes. The ignorant ignore as best you can, and in the end, mask aside, freshen your mouth with ferocious lines of potent poetry, with metaphors that mightily reveal the myriad of emotions you feel—yet, in all their subtleties.

The excerpt uses enjambment: the thought continues from one line to the next without a pause or punctuation at the line break. For example, “reveal” leads directly into “the myriad of emotions you feel,” completing the phrase “metaphors that mightily reveal the myriad of emotions you feel.” The lines are not consistently short, and there are no capitalized phrases or clear right justification.

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