Last
Things
"My mother said that stones were last
things and would be around long after people were gone. Other last things were oceans, metal and
crows."
~ Jenny Offill's novel, Last Things
George
Floyd, murdered by a cop
pressing
a knee on his neck,
becomes
a rallying cry
for
democracy’s last stand.
Final
words: “I can’t breathe…”
Communities
take to the streets and march,
condemn
police brutality,
demand
change, social justice,
tell
the world, “Black Lives Matter”.
Peaceful
protestors, journalists are beaten,
tear-gassed,
shot with rubber bullets,
cleared
from sacred spaces for a propaganda photo op
as
fascism flexes jack boots and knuckles.
Tanks,
private security contractors
circle
the White House, erect a wall
to
keep people out while inside a coward
tweets
inflammatory insults,
turns
off the lights, hides in his bunker.
Throughout
the nation,
fires
ignite, windows break.
Four
hundred years of rage bubbles over.
--Jennifer Lagier
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