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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Who tolt us ‘bout an unknown 19th of June—
who the TikTok teens cast as buffoon? Who?
I’ve prepped produce; bagged bread;
stocked shelves; pulled products for-
ward on shelves of several stores. So
Papa’s proud of you, handsome
Grandsons, for hand-lettered
signs, for taking to the streets
during your generation’s 10
He so wide you can’t go ‘round him
He so low you can’t go under him
He so low that when he go
High an ant can’t get under
Shooting, looting, scalping, lynching,
Raping, torturing their way across
the continent—400 years ago—
How I wish I could sing her name
like Brother Ray or ‘Ree—
‘Cause Breonna Taylor’s real close
to Bryana Turner to me
Infector-in-Chief, Boss Tweet,
Refuses to mask his lie hole. He
insists on leaving out his snout—
What if COVID-19 came and
drove down crime by 40%?
What if capitalism’s cops be-
came useless
(For Ferguson, Baltimore, Million Workers March,
Arab Spring, Standing Rock, Occupy, Jackson Rising,
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If there can be no peace without justice, then there can never be peace while the US Prison Gulag exists. “Prison Lives Matter as Black Lives Matter!!!”
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Du Bois appears to have anticipated the coming of the neoliberal dystopia.
