A Poem for You: Ghazal, After Ferguson

2020-06-04T14:37:34-04:00

Ghazal, After Ferguson BY YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Somebody go & ask Biggie to orate what's going down in the streets. No, an attitude is not a suicide note written on walls around the streets. Twitter stays lockstep in the frontal lobe as we hope for a bypass beyond the streets, but only each day bears witness in the echo chamber of the streets. Grandmaster Flash's thunderclap says he's not the grand jury in the streets, says he doesn't care if you're big or small fear can kill a man on the streets. Take back the night. Take killjoy's cameras & microphones to the [...]