Friday, December 2, 2022

This is America

 

This is America,

Home of mass hysteria,

Where life is inferior,

And guns, we got plethora.

 

This is soil,

Where blood boils,

Water, thicker than oil,

Psychologically wound like coils.

 

This is the place,

Where you get erased,

Virological debates,

And politically defaced.

 

 

I'm so cool like whoa

FDA all in your bowl,

Control your menstrual flow

So new birthrates be real slow.

 

 

This is America.

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Those Eyes...

 

Those Eyes...

Those beautiful eyes

which pierce my soul;

pierce me deep,

so bright

like the light 

in the end when we weep.

Is it Heaven that calls me forth,

beckons a return?

So searing,

those endearing

eyes that burn.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

The Voice of Division


 

It was a black hole.

A nasty, filthy, dirty emptiness.

It was dark and damp and

creatures lived there.

You couldn't see them,

but you could hear their voices;

their ugly words;

hate-filled speeches;

statements with a single purpose:

to propagate divisions.

 

It was a hole of emptiness

stuck to his face

where a mouth should have been.

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Fading Democracy

 



"President Trump encouraged supporters…to vote twice, once by mail and once in person — which is illegal…."

-CBSNews.com

 

Fleeting and often in disrepair yet equal: Justice

is but a memory.

Agents of Peace; executors of law; fleshly bulwarks of freedom

is but a memory.

Simple smiles, honest handshakes, and polite hellos from perfect strangers

is but a memory.

Blue metal containers fed licked and sealed paper pouches

is but a memory.

And now

we're being told to

test the voting system

by voting twice...

 

Soon

fair elections

will be

just a memory.

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

John Ten Ten

 

Dear John,
What is it about the law,
That barely visible ink,
Embedded in
Thin worn paper
That feels like
Cauterized flesh.

What is it about enforcers of law,
These abattoir workers,
These human scythes,
Pushing the poor through slaughter lines
With each call for help they receive.

Is he the thief you spoke of?
The man dressed in blue
Waving gun and wearing shield
Whose oath, not to protect and serve
But rather to kill.

Monday, June 15, 2020

Justice




Justice

That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise.
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
—Langston Hughes, from Scottsboro Limited

Saturday, January 4, 2020

LeVar Burton's "And That's My Story"



LeVar “Kunta Kinte” Burton, the acclaimed actor, author and advocate released the first installment of "This is My Story," a video series where he shares individual stories that capture some of the racist experiences most Black people in the U.S. have in common.




Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Promises of War

The Promises of War

So,
We kill each other

Then what?
Utopia?

References
Wikipedia contributors. (2019, November 12). Red Summer. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 07:21, December 29, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Summer&oldid=925837384

This is America

  This is America, Home of mass hysteria, Where life is inferior, And guns, we got plethora.   This is soil, Where blood boils...