1968 and 2020 … and all the other terrible years of truth denial (most of us are relatively oblivious to Truths)

i’ll get out of this horrible funk
elicited through coumo’s interview
of beautiful soul full Wanda Cooper-Jones
mother of Ahmaud Arbery

this howling, screaming, sobbing despondence

after all
i’m a Have, a U.S. citizen
white, male, catholic, straight

and i am a kneuper
i don’t have same depth of feeling
the wrenching passion
of the howl of Ginsberg
or scream of Munch

still
i ache to know
how did how do
my indigenous my black and my brown sisters and brothers
and others of color
those who don’t fit the norm of those in Power
here on turtle island
in américa central
e do sul
and elsewhere

how did they
how do they
snuff out
suppress
satisfactorily dodge
what must be
constant terrible funk

Lacy Haywood? Abe Sanchez? Andrew Brown?
Stick McCord? Pinho? Oldman? Stephanie?
Barbara Gay? Deyling Rizo? Luis Romero?
…

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