Inflammation DayA Poem by Evilhappywrite please read and enjoyAmerica I have bad news, the Experiment has been a
success thus far, even though we’ve shown the world what an inside joke we really
are, we’re on our knees and wounded, waited for this blood to become a scar,
while the leader of the free world is hiding underground and golfing, Superman
is no more a Superpower, we’re a bitter bunch of bullies, all behavior scored
subpar, so I present to you a date to bear in mind from one hundred fifty five
years ago, April 9th, 1865, put your hands down if you know, that’s
where your Confederate flag belongs, the past, put it up in a museum next to
the Iron Cross, you franchise the oppression that held back three amendments
like the South would ever last, you want a dignified preservation of history?
North Carolina, Virginia, all of you hotbeds of hotheads with your Civil War
statues standing, take em down, dig up the past and lay the sites where your
people protest to rest, nobody’s gonna miss a soldier they never knew, the worst
thing you can do is stand by your self-imposed word to honor the sacrifice of a
roadblock to progress, men who fought their own brothers, and lose artifacts
they left there too, but stupid is as stupid will do so to thine own self be
true, I was only raised in Texas, a state you can live your whole life in and
never spend the same two years in the same town twice, the climate jumps from
Los Angeles Liberal to Backwater Porch, and the weather jumps around like a
frying pan popping rice, there’s so much bigotry and love I go back scratching
my head over all the opinions like I’ve been given lice, if everyone would shut
their mouth for a minute, maybe I could make up my own mind, and wouldn’t that
be nice? So I thought about Jean, Ramos and Floyd, a man from Houston who died
in Minneapolis, people made jokes about it, memes and laughed about it, they
threw slurs around and their moral conscience came into my doubts about it, I
thought about laying face down in bed, I’ve got a pillow under my head, my
airway is not constricted this should not even be a privilege, when did the
police fail to stop murderers before they left someone dead, Chauvin killed him
over nothing, and no one stopped him, I thought about Abbott, what he has and
hasn’t said, I thought about Chappelle and 8:46, this Shotgun Safari is not
okay, it doesn’t feel like it’s enough to just say, and I don’t have a lot of spiritual
energy, but I talked to God a lot yesterday, I can’t understand the white world
where I’ve been allowed to live, when I’ve taken more than I can ever give, and
I prayed! Elijah McClain, I listened to him screaming, begging, no one was
there to answer while he spent his final moments in pain, but the cops protect
and serve, so I can’t scrub the infectious smile, the brightness of his life
from my brain, this young man did not deserve to be slain, and I listen to
people argue and complain, white privilege and all lives, what about their
lives? You’re not afraid to die if you walk home at night, if you’re sitting in
your apartment, if you spend a twenty dollar bill, if you call the police up
like a hit squad, is it you they’re gonna kill? Your lives don’t matter, the
inequality is so severe you don’t even get the meaning here, it’s about
balance, it’s about shifting the scales back, you can’t tell me you feel afraid
for your life surrounded by armed cops, when a man can plan to kill as many
people in a theater in Aurora, Colorado in a domestic terrorist attack and live
to go to jail, and a damn kid has to die over nothing because he’s black. Even
the police need police these days, but who’s paying, the president is
incompetent, it doesn’t need saying, it’s been self-evident, the voice of
change is the minority of intelligence in a swathe of complacent Americana morons,
cries for effort earn you a place within the margins of the estranged, no we can’t
all get along, we’re not friends, I won’t leave my home, I’ll fight you with my
words to see it be the better place it can be, because I’m free to do so by any
means, until I can’t hold a pen, until black lives matter and my life ends. © 2020 Evilhappy |
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Added on July 4, 2020 Last Updated on July 4, 2020 AuthorEvilhappyWaco, TXAboutI'm a garbage person, I live in Texas. I love writing and everything I know about it I learned by doing it on my own. Frequent uploads and majority of work here: https://www.deviantart.com/evilhappy.. more..Writing
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