Gravity Offended
finger paint with the blood of their children the red lines on the flag of a nation that takes no note of them
The sun rises in the east
as Black and brown communities are forced
to finger paint with the blood of their children
the red lines on the flag of a nation
that takes no note of them and
expects them to continue on,
stepping over injustice,
business as usual because
the world stops for no one.
The blood of White children drips
and things have suddenly shifted.
The sun rises in the west
and Everyone must take note.
The tides pull backwards,
dragging the moon limply behind them
and Everyone must take note.
Gravity is upended and
the cows rise in the air with udders flailing,
passed by a picnic table
with neat checkered cloth,
the pristine fence posts
launching haphazardly into the air one by one,
and the elderly woman
chasing her television
which has just passed into orbit,
projecting for all to hear
in the soundless void of space:
How White rapists are only sweet boys poking fun;
How Black children are young adults who should know better;
How time can always be made to air the stories of kidnapped
sweet, innocent White angels;
How White people want America to be White Again;
and how White babies are getting murdered by Black giants
who swallow them whole with their feet first.
And shouldn’t we just take note how
White people apparently have this amazing power to stop the world
to mourn their grown and children,
their grief displayed on every network and screen floating on by when.
meanwhile.
the Black and brown bodies are stuck back down on gravity-less apocalyptic land,
weighed down by centuries and centuries of devastation
and their children’s corpses
which for all the world cares about them
might as well have been cotton underneath their feet.
Take note.
About the Creator
R.C. Taylor
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Comments (1)
Take fucking note. Because this stuff doesn’t stop. And it’s disgusting. This white supremic society bs is dirty snow and needs to be dismantled