I dreamed I saw a white man getting choked
By black policemen
for a minor crime.
The courts said what they did was unprovoked,
And every single
one of them got time.
I dreamed I saw a white man getting shot
By two black cops
because he raised his voice.
The cops were executed on the spot
While Fox News
tried (and failed) not to rejoice.
I woke to one more black man full of lead
Because his skin
has no place in the dream
Of equal rights. Why else would he be dead?
If you would know
who threatens a regime
And who its
masters think need Emmett Tilling,
See who their
thugs can get away with killing.
Copyright 2016 Matthew J Wells
1 comment:
Horrific, shameful, disappointing, disgusting. I shake my head while I shutter my windows. In an earlier life I might have protested with vigor, marched indignantly, full of righteous belief that something could, should be DONE goddammit. My jaded older self fears otherwise.
Nicely sonnetized.
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