Flash Back

Flash Back to

1993

Police on the Scene

Actions go out like a laser beam

Stun gun shocks black man

Black Jacks cracks him as he raises his hand

81 hits in 56 seconds

1993 Riot should have taught them a lesson

Flash Back

Reginald Denny

Kicked and beaten

City anger heating

Police spectating

Fire men waiting

As the city burns

Flash Back

Donte Dawson sits in his car

Surrounded by police

As he appears to be sleep

A cop finger just squeeze (the trigger)

Bullets blaze through the summer breeze

Tearing through his chest

Laying another brother to rest

Flash Black

2009 Oscar Grant slain on a Oakland platform

as the new year came in

a cop couldn’t tell the difference if he held a taser or a gun

As Oscar laid face down

Not resisting or about to run

As a bullet ricochet through his body

Ridding his body of its oxygen

Leaving us to Riot once again

But not for the last time

As we become victims of a timeless crime

While cops see no time

Having us to Flash Back

Once again

And Riot !!!

Just Write

Write a story
A vision
A poem
Write a visionary poem
A poem that plays
In minds like a movie
A feature presentation
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Your pain
Your victories
Write about painful victories
That helped you over come
Your under performances
That you wish you could do over
Write your beginning
How it all began
Write your ending before it all ends
Without leaving out the middle
Where all the good stuff lives

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