The Queen Is Still Dead

Russia is still losing the war

Jackson still has mud

for drinking water

Flint still has lead in theirs.

The west is on fire.

Brown and Black people

are still not mourning,

not for the queen, at least.

Though they still bury their dead,

the ones the cops killed,

the ones who died

from exploitation

and enslavement.

And the sun also

still rises.