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All Lives Matter?
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
12 Jul 2018
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There are lives that matter, and there are those other lives....

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; 

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." 

- John Donne 

Two celebrities died this week

Pundits pooled barrels of ink coast to coast;

Kleenex flew from shelves; and

Facebook filled with philosophical wealth;

“So sad” trended, looped exponentially…

123 Palestinians were

systematically slaughtered…

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

A moment of silence— 

70 years…

© 2018. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.

Raymond Nat Turner is Black Agenda Report's poet in residence, and an acclaimed performing artist. Find much more of his work at http://upsurgejazz.com.

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