Eulogy for Amadou Diallo
My memory
Is you memory
endless flag
pretty blue
done
split
done
gone
away
from under water
rose we
in
it
self
had be’d
a
flag
of
death
2
Everything
Sick poison
Gas is dawn
Got a click teeth
Our space Death you cover
Candy time. Holiday
Cupid coffin Puck you
No longer let it kill
I
Back. Them.
Fire.
Shoot.
Stab them with
They
filth can’t swing
Don’t
sway that’s why
They try to kill us
This
way.
by Amiri Baraka
(art by Theodore Harris)