“At the end of the elegy, the poet gestures / To the poem itself: ‘It has eight sections: / One for each month he lived, dying.” from 18. by Sally Keith
ONE
killing of Michael Brown
protests against excessive
force continues for conservatives
oakland or ferguson or baghdad on
the case the others of course crime
police killing Michael Brown that protest
excessive use of force continues
for conservatives like trump ferguson
assaults the times expanding that cities
in syria or areas target of those figures
to international ones thought watching
that cities of course of reason of course
the police expanding that protests against
excessive use of what you might call run-of-the-mill
violent crime ferguson and oakland or baghdad
isn’t a particular data point murder rates in missouri
out of 75 for which full fbi data rates are highest
there are four americas that sparked national communities
of course the police and the most dangerous cities
targets of figures and racial political conversations
places where you are dangerous places to list
not only st louis most whites were watching
that most dangerous st louis for a number
of murder a mexican non-government
in its murder rate
while the most dangerous
doesn’t include the FBI
data point murders
track meaning
dangerous racial conversations
called consejo ciudadano
para la seguridad
publica y la justicia
tracks only in facts
but doesn’t list those figures
interviews with radical racial politics
conversation as questions
of 100,000 or more in uniform
in murder a mexican questions
uniform in its murder
rate while the murder
organization questions of
100,000 or more and communities
protest against excessive resulting
more dangerous in the worst neighborhood
in the worst neighborhood in the case
the crime number of large us cities
in syria or target areas of fact
TWO
november after dead detroit and
new orleans st louis baltimore detroit
and new orleans for a number of large
us cities of course the fact in syria
target of terrorists it’s hard to compare the
most dangerous in international experience
into an advantage the broader context
crime rate while most whites were murdered
by continued people which is not at all
for conservatives like trump was a political one
meant to redirect a weakness his lack of interview
populations higher in some us cities
ferguson isn’t baghdad
dangerous but doesn’t
include assaults and rapes during
most dangerous cities of course
the crime numbers reason within
the list of terrorists it’s hard to compare
trump’s tongue for other reasons
within the worse serious he continued
there are four Americas out of 75
trump’s tongue for other things
that are among the most reported
bombings more and consider the former
the city itself is alive
baghdad isn’t particularly
american in fact for a number of reasons
just steps back from the city
maintains relevance in association
prompting a reply of Never!
Source:
- Bump, Philip. “Donald Trump Somehow Thinks Ferguson and Oakland Are Dangerous Like Iraq.” Washington Post 18 May 2016. Web. 18 May 2016.
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Forbes, J. B. Meghan O’Donnell Prays in Ferguson, Mo. 10 Aug. 2014. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Photograph. 19 May 2016.
- Keith, Sally. River House: Poems. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2015. Print.