Sunday, August 30, 2020

day THIRTEEN HUNDRED and TWENTY ONE

we bought their gun
bought their badge
and sweetened the deal
with tacit approval
do what you must
but keep it
silent
and we’ll send
thoughts
and prayers
and say hollow words
that have no teeth
to cool
a nations
boiling rage
now
who will buy
a black man
voice
when his lungs
are dead
and full of earth

--Patrick Walters


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