Sonya

A gut reaction to a video

The price of

a rebuke

and a boiling pot

is apparently

getting shot.

Threatened much ?

I'd say not.

Hope you didn't like

your badge a lot.

Jim Lonsdale Poetry 2024

Author's Note

I wrote this after my first viewing of Sonya Massey's shooting

Reviews

[Betty Hermelee]

This is very powerful and thoughtful... and truthful....None of us want to watch a shooting, or even hear about a shooting...while we need cops for some things; they do get out of hand...i guess the badge is everything for them...pride and no barriers... their gun is their whole being....reform is essential
Nice write!
Warmly, B

[Desert Knave]

Thank you so much. ~Jim

[Betty Hermelee]

You’re very welcome Jim🌷
Warmly, B

[jacob erin-cilberto]

What an awful event that was...there is not enough punishment that can be laid upon that man for what he did. There is no room for this racism.

[Desert Knave]

No doubt. Totally unacceptable.