TWS #75 “Heroes”

You call them
caped crusaders,...



TWS #75 “Heroes”

You call them
caped crusaders,
those with dusty fatigues
and their blue-draped
brothers and sisters.
The heart of our nation,
your rabble and shout.

Yet where are your words
after the bugles go silent,
after the cameras stop flashing,
when your tool for show
lies alone in a hospital bed
or walks down a neighborhood
they barely know?

Our cops are fighting a subconscious war,
tarted up like a holy whore
by racist fallacy,
giving breath to
drug policy
more concerned with
profi...

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Published on November 15, 2017 07:44
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