The plastic ghouls and rope nets, wired spiders in frozen creep, this cemetery of street, this house cobwebbed in gauze of pretend decay, and along front window, the letters of her name, inked and hung with care. One wants to read “Happy Halloween” there, but instead these letters, more ache, more memorial, renders whole house …
MILITANT SOLUTIONS Objects Walking while Black Playing while Black Driving while Black Jogging while Black Sleeping while Black Breathing while Black Can we do that? NHIs that are Human Beings They got Triangles, Squares, Rectangles, circling the seen Getting rid of the objects is part of the training Death to Breonna Taylor Death to …
Wicked I heard you say, “I don’t have a racist bone in my body,” And I believe you Except racism is not stored in the bones It matriculates in the heart Flows through the blood Then corrodes the mind Eventually spewing its way out of the mouth Manifesting itself into the form of hatred That …
When I need comfort, I turn to the countenance of Congressman John Lewis. This is one of those times. I could make a list of names and souls who have been stolen from our presence, from those who love them, from those of us who inhale the pain of distortion, discrimination, outright murder and racism …
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