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too Dead to attend his wedding later that day,
he lay in a pool of purple blood.
Black. Brown. Dark. his. Skin. shined
as his fiancée cried
out to a world that
could not hear her or the two children
that didn't cry
because they did not yet understand.

what good is understanding
when 50 shots can be justified by justice paradigms
that define your worth by your hue
and your intelligence by I.Q.s?

bang, bang, bang, bang, bang
now multiply that by ten and what do you get?
another unfed child in a single...