This Is Us - January 6, 2021 A boot, many boots, on a desk, on a neck, on your neck, on your desk, marching down the hall, kicking in doors, dragging dog shit across the tiles A flag, many flags, stars and stripes and bars and crosses, Reds and whites, yellow, black, scales, hand drawn signs, Don’t tread on me while I tread on you, my vote counts, money matters Smoke, Flash bombs Overstuffed backpacks, long guns and IEDs Across the mall, across the lawn, up the steps, through the windows, Selfies with the complicit, Chants and stomps, high fives and let us in, Let us in, While we keep you out Broken glass, broken fingers, broken bodies, broken promises, A dead woman in the hall, This letter from the state of Arizona appears to be regular in form, Why does the gentleman from Arizona rise? Order in this chamber, the gentleman will-- Barricades and opened doorways and Here comes the tear gas, let us in, And eventually curfews and sweeps and sirens and then sighs of I’m sorry and my heart is broken and hands wringing and this isn’t us--- This Is Us Look at the mob. Look at the monster. You are Victor and you are Prometheus. You are the forest and the fire. That is you, right there, with your boot on a neck, and that is me, and your neighbor. Look Recognize our face in the faces on the news
To WCW after Visiting His Kitchen
I Jus Like Let You Know I had eatDa mangoYou wen put inDa fridge And I tinkYou was prollyGoinEat today Brah, I sorryNo get mad, k?Was so goodWit lime, cold, sweet Also,I goin eat da next one tooSo,I jus like let you know
What did Whitman Say to Ali?
Tucked away amongst Walt Whitman’s grass leaves, he asserts that he can “hear America singing.” He is listening to an American choir of voices that at the time is overlooked in favor of white men of means. In his telling, the American song is sung by the mechanics, the mason, the shoe maker, among other…
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