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Danez Smith - “Not An Elegy for Mike Brown”

"Once, a white girl was kidnapped & that’s the Trojan war. Later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. Are we not worthy of a city of ash?" 

Performing at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!