I didn’t watch it
The show movie about a boy killed while carrying some candy & a drink
In a town down South
By a brown man exercising his
right to carry…
as he
stood his ground…
and measured life
on a stick
metered by white supremacy.
I couldn’t bear to watch
the story play out
again
of
A Black Mother’s Cry
As I recount going to a mall in Philly & chiding the store manager,
a young SUN
for what I thought was irresponsible posturing of hoodies as FLY merch!
In any color–red, blue, heather, black–it would be read blue whether gray or white on BLACK
boys and men
whose lives were are valued only as in sport
like game
in the wild…
Rest in power
Trayvon Martin
Joy Barnes-Johnson, Ph.D. 