Why Write

When U write about your pain, 
Your losses, you want empathy
Why not my pain
when police again
Kill a Black Man mercilessly?
(Almost 9 minutes, cuffed, feet held by Officer Lane -
while Derek Chauvin - already "blacklisted as bad cop" -
Was given gun, badge, authority to kill again
"And in your name." And U prefer SILENCE?
why?
Not even Congress is silent about George Floyd
mostly PS
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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