Google Search for Black Lives Matter

Len Lawson

 

Google search for black lives matter

 

Did you mean slaves

 

black lives matter         Emmit Till

                                    Orangeburg Massacre

                                    Kent State

                                    Los Angeles Riots

                                    Ferguson

                                    Baltimore

                                    North Charleston

                                    too many bodies to name in a poem

 

Did you mean Michael Jackson Oprah Beyonce

 

black lives matter       when did it start

                                    when killed by cops

                                    when body cams fail

                                    when cell phones stay charged

                                    when terror is not imported but a natural resource

                                    when   white lives need votes

                                                white lives say so

                                                white sheets cast shadows

                                                white doesn’t mean holy

 

Did you mean niggers, Nigga

 

black lives matter       when black mothers go bankrupt planning black baby funerals

                                    when black girls go up flag poles and come down superheroes

 

                                    when black bodies      speak out

                                                                        jog in the suburbs

                                                                        fit a criminal description

                                                                        invade white privilege

                                                                        go silent in jail cells

                                                                        get detained by swarms of police

 

Did you mean buffoons

 

            black lives       in American shadows

                                    in the center of white pupils

                                    in white bloodlines     Thomas Jefferson

                                    in between white lines            dark city streets

                                    in the bottom of crab barrels              black people syndrome

                                    in color charts not skin tone                           hue and spectrum

                                    in wherever black damn well pleases

                                    you mad bro

                                    sorry not sorry

 

Did you mean black face, minstrel, coon, jigaboo, spook, and the names we don’t know you use because you say them in private

 

black lives matter       the air you breathe

                                    the earth you stand on

                                    the universe you praise

                                    your god’s heaven

                                   

                                    big bang

                                    big black bang

                                    big black loud bang

                                    big black loud angry BANG         

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