POETRY

Ice Cream Shop

#JusticeForFloyd

Photo by Mak on Unsplash

What flavor of
Systemic racism
Would you like today?

Perhaps the
Cop-kills-black-man of the month?
Did you want
sprinkles with that?

Or
White-woman-privilege-rears-its-ugly-head?
Crying wolf on a bird watcher.
Waffle cone or sugar cone?

How about our
Random-white-people-shoot-a-neighborhood-jogger? It’s
Sugar-free

You could try:
George Floyd
Trayvon Martin
Michael Brown
Breonna Taylor
Ahmaud Arbery
Tamir Rice
Oscar Grant
Philando Castile
Sandra Bland
Walter Scott?

Or were you thinking something more vanilla?
Institutionalized racism, from plantations to prisons and
Slaveowners to law enforcement —
This won’t stop until we stop it.

One scoop or two?