Cycle

[kpete]

Cycle

By Abriana Jetté

— For Amadou Diallo (1975-1999)

nine less
than Sean Bell

seven years later and yet all things
still the same same front stoop

same pebbles being kicked
same stump same flag

same everything i said it
because she said fifty bullets sounded

like one giant cloud of rain
i say it sure sounds like justice being hung

from a tree in Money, Mississippi,
like a reminder

don’t you try and live
boy don’t you live (how does one live?)

your mother lived with an extra million
for every forty one not guilty

rounds lived
without a son to spoil


http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/cycle_a_poem_to_reminds_us_of_amadou_diallo_in_blacklivesmatter_20150218