day THIRTEEN HUNDRED and SEVENTY THREE

 I CAN’T BREATHE 

This is how 
we burn 
city by city 
and all 
at once 

the people 
fed up 

the people 
standing straight 
at last 

the people 
saying 
stop killing us 

admit it 
America 
you crazy bitch 
you lunatic baby 
you spoiled psychopath 
raging 
for death 

your knee 
on the people’s 
neck 

this is how 
we explode 
this is how 
we can never 
go back 

this is how we burn 
and burn 
and burn 

--Jeff Weddle