THIS IS HOW WE SHOOT BACK

 

Let's discuss this.

Put it to rest because

this

needs to get off our chest.

 

Let our mouths be our muskets.

Words, the bullets not to be fussed with.

This is how we shoot back.

 

With this assembly, we aspire

to provoke

not riot, but conversation. This congregation

has come together to express

its descent of police matters.

So,

in exercising our right

to be heard,

the only proper police protocol is to use

excessive force, forceful words.

 

Because some of your actions have suggested that

talking

is out of the question.

And that causes me to question,

"How can you question your suspects once they lay dead at your hands.

 

How?

 

How do you release preemptive news bulletins once you've

unwarrantedly released

one or two bullets in a

young man's chest?" It's suspect,

 

how quickly your suspects turn to victims.

Routine arrests are looking more and more

like

modern day lynchings, and I understand that it's a

slippery slope.

It's your job to bear arms,

but not to wrap your bare arms around throats

like rope,

like boa constrictors.

 

"I can't breath!", being

screamed

in a whisper. So,

for those of you who wear the blue,

let's get this clear.

 

I fear that until the injustice stops,

red, white, and blue

will go down in history represented by the blood unjustly stained on the uniforms of

cops.

 

We've got to stop with the speech blocks.

 

Let's discuss this.

Put it to rest because

this

needs to get off our chests.

 

Let our mouths be our muskets.

Words, the bullets, not to be fussed with.

This is how we shoot back.

This is how we shoot back.

This is how we shoot back.

This is how we shoot back.

 

© Daniel J. Watts

 

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