Watts UpRise is a finalist of the 2022 Press 53 Award for Poetry and a featured poem, “Compton, An Energy-Fueled Dark Star” is nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize.
Sheriff Deputy’s creeping black and white,
flashing red lights, their CrownVic stopping steep
Mayfield lit the torch in black dark, said Keep on Pushing when kept apart
from parks, restaurants, and movies.
Donald J. Trump’s hiss hollows me
his virulence, like swindlers, sidle up
to travelers armchair quarterbacks.
Dreading deadly colds, flu, I shudder, afraid
Riding his bicycle on a sidewalk
riding his bike on the wrong side
his bike didn’t have lights
his bike safe from The Rona infected buses
he stole a glance at a two sheriff’s deputies
a reservoir of resentment
First, understand what you call “a riot”
was the Watts rebellion ending our 1965
Little League season. No last-inning strikeout
but choking smoke, thick of burning rubber.
No walk-off homerun, but smoldering wood.
They call me the weed killer them that argue it’s medical
value—sure—assume everyone’s sick and in need of a cure.
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