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By
Ben White
Just Like “Four Dead in Ohio”
My President just threatened me
With the violence
Of power and numbers,
And if I see
A mob of people
Wearing brown shirts
And black boots
Storming through
Blue-state cities
And across the campuses
Of universities –
Where education
Has folded its hand
Without betting –
I will see history
Vetting its own events
And repeating itself
With chain-of-command orders
To pull the trigger
On the rights of the Constitution
Leaving fellow countrymen divided
…and dead.
Ben White
Author of the books, Buddha Bastinado Blues and The Kill Gene, Ben White thought he was a poet, only to find out he is not a poet at all. He is a witness. What he writes is testimony.
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