She said her church was organizing a trip to Senegal and we’d go to someplace called Goré Island and there’d be something called the Door of No Return It’s where slaves had to go through to get on a ship sailing to America It’s where African people lost everything and stepped out into a future they didn’t know So when the officers hold that door open leading out of the courtroom I think of that trip that never happened and the Door of No Return My life, my whole damn life before that courtroom before that trial before that night was like Africa And this door leads to a slave ship And maybe
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