225/365 Police brutality Free-write [23/30]

By your fifteenth donut today,

Did you feel your pig belly drip over your belt,

Did you feel ashamed,

Did you think you could beat the pounds out of an innocent civilian? 

Or was this just your way of exercising?

Swine, 

Do you feel like more of a man, 

now that you've beat another man senseless.

Do you feel like now, 

You have been able to thicken the line of inequality 

Between the badge and them.

See, I’m a big fan of Trevor Hall,

I sing, “I just want to melt away in all it’s grace,

Drift away to that sacred place,

Where there’s no more you and me,

No more they and we,

Just unity”

Like it’s a religion.

As do my fellow hippies,

We pump our fist into the air like it will change the world,

You pump your fist into our stomach in hopes of destroying ours.

Listen when you beat protesters face into the pavement,

Do you think it will silence the hundreds that came before them?

The millions that will come after,

Is this your way of sweeping injustice under the rug,

Do you think it will solve the problem?

Or do you like to watch the line between classes thicken,

Is that why you so often go for the Hispanics,

The Blacks?

But I know this isn’t about race.

The only difference,

I see between you and is you’re still living of the revenue you forced my ancestors to build for you 

On a stolen continent.

God, you’ve got the world fooled.

Ain’t transfer of energy somethin?

You steal, kill and destroy,

Then beat others for pilfering, punching and knocking at your unjust pillar of strength.

Try to act like you don’t miss slavery.

Don’t miss the power.

Don’t miss chopping off limbs,

Separating and crippling 

Families in the name of the law.

But I’ve heard epithets ricochet off your lips the same way your bullets 

Ricochet through Oscar Grant’s  vital organs.

Leaving his four year old daughter fatherless.

Did you liken your self to a Nazi Solider

And feel as though you were purifying the world. 

Does the word “nigger”

 stain your teeth like the coffee you drink daily?

Is their caffeine in the word,

Do you say it at least five times before you can kiss your daughter on the forehead.

Does the residue of the word,

Cloud her third eye until she grows up seeing the world just like you.

Do you swine, 
 liken justice seekers to wolves?

Then you must have forgotten,

Wolves run in packs. 

If you outrage one you outrage all.

The more you beat and kill of us the more that will come to fight,

Until the problem is solved,

Until inequality no longer exist,

Until YOU put down your weapon!

Written by Dominique Sample