Let’s Talk About…
Natalee?
She’s dead
So why don’t we focus on the dying living
Instead
Let’s talk about
Zombies
Down on California Street
Where hearts still beat
Underneath
Concrete coffins called cells
Alive and, well
Somehow they remain buried
While the rest of us hurry
To
Forget that these dying men have faces
Let’s face it
Jon Benet?
She’s dead
So why don’t we focus on the dying living instead
Let’s talk about
Specters
Down on Halstead street
Where brown babies are sleeping
Beaten
Trampled
By media dirt
There is no Amber Alert
For our children
Let’s face it
Laci and Stacy?
They’re dead
So why don’t we focus on the dying living
Instead
Let’s talk about
Ghosts
Down on 79th Street
Little girls whose bodies still reek
From the deadly stench
Of grown men
Who’ve been inside of them
Preying on lack of self esteem and then
Emotionally
Killing them
Decaying shells of the souls within
But only blonde hair is worthy of CNN
Brown skin
Is still foreign in this country
An entire people deceased
With each news release
Denying their existence
Despite their insistence
To feel alive again
Why keep talking about the dead?
Instead
Let’s talk about the dying living
June 8, 2010 8:21 am 1 Comment
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By NewlyNina, June 9, 2010 @ 9:26 am
OMG Erica that was very deep and oh so true!