after Etheridge Knight
for Walter Scott
Lord, they done did the damn deed again took him out
like POOF like ace BOOM COON like WAP like
motherfucker he might’ve been kin you know? like I’m saying
neither of us can could run for shit guess a cop’s shot ain’t
gotta be worth spit if he gets eight of them damn just ate shrimp
now it’s everywhere it’s dark outside my window America
is everywhere look this brother ain’t coming back none of them
coming back turn yours on a coward they’ll prove who they really
are scared of is you telling me I went four long-ass days
without knowing he died that I got my tail light fixed the same
damn day he faded out in broad daylight after getting stopped
for a broken tail light? did I drop $275 just to keep living my
got-damned life?! I got work in the a.m. but what for? who
I’m feeding? Walter Scott have kids or not? they caught them
bastards on tape planting the taser next to a body
handcuffed to its own color to lifelessness itself motherfucker
I can’t even I need a woman to hold me tonight a good
woman like she would bury me with her own hands good if
I bit the bullet kicked the bucket of blood over I need Jesus
some Kanye College Dropout tonight I really need
some liquor for them to stay outta my face with all
their oh my God! every day they kill my God just a little bit
more believe that my brother it took a camera for all
y’all to believe this was possible but why? still ain’t enough
why? my background check clean like tabula rasa like you
can be white on black and free black on anything and
dead in jail for life sick dopeness I got it don’t worry fuck it
I got it cable news is gonna have field days with this one
and the next man fuck that if I’m being completely honest
fuck every Facebook “like” on that video fuck every share
and stock that goes up tomorrow fuck the NRA fuck elephants
and donkeys and trees fuck all the primaries and the general
fuck another White House press conference fuck every
bald-headed bird in the sky fuck “democracy” fuck oligarchy
fuck racism fuck sexism fuck heterosexism fuck classism fuck
the police state fuck law and order if that’s what it takes
fuck the drug of war fuck the war on drugs fuck good
people going quiet fuck pure evil fuck the part of me that wants to
forget fuck forgetting fuck not forgetting fuck death fuck my life
fuck every single thing in sight till we all make it all right.
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