@patrickrhone I’ve been thinking all week about this poem by June Jordan. It’s from her book Passion:

Poem about Police Violence June Jordan

Tell me something what you think would happen if every time they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop

you think the accident rate would lower subsequently? sometimes the feeling like amaze me baby comes back to my mouth and I am quiet like Olympian pools from the running mountainous snows under the sun

sometimes thinking about the 12th House of the Cosmos or the way your ear ensnares the tip of my tongue or signs that I have never seen like DANGER WOMEN WORKING

I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rapid and repetitive affront as when they tell me 18 cops in order to subdue one man 18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn street was just a "justifiable accident" again (Again)

People been having accidents all over the globe so long like that I reckon that the only suitable insurance is a gun I'm saying war is not to understand or rerun war is to be fought and won

sometimes the feeling like amaze me baby blots it out/the bestial but not too often tell me something what you think would happen if everytime they kill a black boy then we kill a cop everytime they kill a black man then we kill a cop

you think the accident rate would lower subsequently