Derek Chauvin guilty on three counts of murdering George
Floyd
certainly fell on its face
yesterday 4/20
1751, Day-between-Two-Ts, 21 4. 21
to be fair it took years and had been a convoluted path
he lived in Chicago proper until he
was five then moved and spent his boyhood and teens in the suburbs Hazelwood being suburbia streetsigns told you when you went from one city to the
next one wasnt different than another they were like run-on sentences zero punctuation
his folks still lived there
his siblings lived within ten
minutes of themwithin twenty minutes of each other
The mailman takes exception to
your letters his folks told him in turn he adored their redundancy
Why
You upset him, he doesn’t find you
funny.
He’s not amused, Joe.
Joseph, he’s a nice man.
he was white
he was straight
he would have fit right in if his
politics werent his politics or if he didnt know history
he refused to let his children
participate in Thanksgiving programs at school Go along to get along his wife her family his distant family members
counselled him a concerted effort he hadnt asked them his children werent participating he ended up going before the school board it refused to acknowledge that Wampanoag were
two to one to the pilgrims anif it had not been for the First People the pilgrims
might likely have perished he resisted
the temptation to standfist raised over his head and chant Remember Roanoke
Remember the Lost Colony Remember Roanoke
he testified Ive always been of the mind that the red man in their parlance they werent going
to correct him which he would have bet
the farm on should either have packed the
pilgrims back on board the Mayflower returned
it from whence it came or killed them
the Board slackjawedincredulous was
visibly peeved
their silence said it all
he didnt count how many trees he
saved
he wept outside the gate on the
sixtyfirst day when earthmovers cleared the remaining grove piled them snappedbroken violated green wood
in the past year amid havoc wrecked by Trump virus he worked from home more and more of his Colony neighbours bought
dogs who bayed and chorused throughout the day
he was not fond of dogs
he had cats
but wasnt it unusual it seemed so to him
that after hundreds of trees were felled that a hundred dogs he didnt know
would be brought into the neighbourhood
he was so cocksurelaying down in bed to go to sleep that hed remember in the morning what he was visualising right then it was so rarified how could he possibly forget
oil and water
they may have figured they could
take him down quicklike
but his melon was all bone
he rope-a-doped without ropes Ali informed
they became brazen
he wouldnt kick or stomp a man
while he was down
if they were comfortable on their
back they didnt have to get up hed let
them lay
a small part of him thought he wouldnt
parlay the image through the night and remember it in the morning
a small part
then he concededhe preferred concurring but none of his apes from their corners or outside peering in through keyholes dare say it first
he reached onto the wood
feedtrough standing on end beside the bed and took his cellphone in hand
he texted himself
he felt like he was cheating
the gals werent appealing
when he woke later in the morning
he didnt remember
he did remember sending himself a
text
OhShit yes Now I remember
his brother was way fat
nobody badmouths a fat manHe’s a
big guy. No Hes fat
he walked in
didnt knock
since hes strung tighthairtriggered
if he felt slighted
he didnt think
why would he they
didnt
maybe afterwards theyd think
she went to say something his brother said Shut up. Move. You don’t
wanna mess with my brother. he didnt
look at him I’m sorry, man, I’m sorry, I
don’t know what I was thinking.
Leame alone I donwanna think about it
A frontal lobotomy won’t erase
that.
No Tattooed on my brain etched in my memory
He was following his cockwasnt
thinkin
A lot of flesh.
Our eyeballs
Fat is as fat does.
Thanks Forrest Gump
Congressional nativists
White?
Do they come in any other colour
You crack me up; what of them?
They call themselves the America
First CaucusJESUSCHRIST Originally it was shared with mepitched
as the AFC I despise acronyms but thats why they fed it to me they wanted to raise my angstmy ire
White raises your ire?
But Ill not let you take me off
my game
AFC
Ahyes, your disgust of acronyms.
Donroll yer eyes
Yes
And
I’m waiting for it . . . your
crowning declaration
he laughed hard
Jesus thats unlike you
But not unlike you, I wanted to
attest my brotherhood.
Awfuck yare sweet sweet as honey
Don’t forget it.
and he didnt buy candles
online
virtually all Black writers
but why target him
he took the water up until his
body was covered and stopped the flow
Calm
mantra
Calm
he could almost hear her voice
Calm
the water wondered why the
advertisement got a rise out of him
Dislocation Anatomy belongs where it should be found not dismembereddissected
When presumed clever isnt clever
the water wondered if his upset
was because the genital candle was Black
he opened his eyes
The pendulum swings
You will swing out of the worst of
it
Clever foments
Often it is novel a fad
As your daughter instructed you
She knew you intimately
the moonlight was on the wall
