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)