For 2015's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is writing thirty poems in thirty days.
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LATE APRIL, 2015
there are black boys being
beaten in Baltimore
against a backdrop
of burning buildings
and what am I doing?
am I standing alongside them
as a brother in arms?
am I standing alongside them
as a brother in Christ?
am I walking out into
the street of my own town
and weeping for them?
what good is a voice
if it isn’t used?
what good is a voice
if it isn’t heard?
what would Queequeg say?
what would Jesus do?
Who-e debel you?
Get behind me Satan!
can two men hug
in the street
wrapped in a counterpane
of Instagram posts
black and white
against a backdrop of color
hugged by the mother
of one or the other
wrapped in her yellow
jacket rather
than being beaten by her
before someone
throws the final punch?
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