Written after viewing the police shooting video of Philando Castile and then the video of his girlfriend and child in the back of a police car and his girlfriend is screaming, then the video of the police carrying disabled people out of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office, and then the video of police brutality towards a Laotian American with the same name and skin color as my boyfriend. But people have little to say because they work all the time.
The ozone is shit
My grandparents bought a gun
Sunburn in no time
It’s purgatory
The police pushed my sister
I ESCAPED PRISON
And my skin cleared up
But I came back for my friends
We are the inmates
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“But people have little to say because they work all the time” may be my favorite line.
Definitely quality line.