By Michael H. Brownstein
All cancer survivors matter.
But what about diabetes? Muscular dystrophy?
A swollen prostrate? Graves Disease?No one says a specific disease survivor matters.
Down the road they chant for peace! for justice!
the protesters nonviolent and every shade of skin.
No one says: For war! For injustice!
The woman says of the man with the knee on his neck,
All he had to do was follow instructions.
Is that not what he did? He did not resist arrest,
he did not argue, he lay down when they asked that of him and died.
Why is it every African American mother teaches their son
how to act when the police pull them over?
Why is not a concern of ours that white mothers do not do the same?
| Copyright © 2020 by Michael H. Brownstein Michael H. Brownstein’s volumes of poetry, A Slipknot Into Somewhere Else and How Do We Create Love?, were published by Cholla Needles Press in 2018 & 2019, respectively. |
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