With this poem
I wanted to impeach the proclivities of the savage , Amerikkka’s

poltergeist inhumanity to Black folk . Is an epigenetic , post
-traumatic stress disorder , which is to say a spectral tremoring

that fractures memory into trauma , into horror
repressed subconsciously , the erratic fragments of recollection

that appear , usually , as a cold sweat-drenched night terror
, the terrifying images , the forever falling

into the bottomless void of an abyss , that startles us to scream
into what we believe to be awakened , then jump-scared  

n.

(in films or television shows) a sudden or unexpected
event , typically involving , or accompanied by

a loud , jarring sound , intended to startle an audience
) , only to again reawaken , disoriented  

, by the nightmare buried within the dream . The ghostly
whiteness that invented a pseudoscientific category , a lower caste

, and spread a prejudiced contagion of e-race-ure , spook metaphors
, or even , at times , just the night terror effect of a legal lynching

—reminds us that anyone who doesn't struggle , declare war
against the enemy , can be replaced

, a visceral sense of Edgar Allen Poe , the horror
that is all that we see , or seem , is but a dream within a dream                    

that cannot be translated into compromise or compliance
—a persistent haunting

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. The wild animal of life broke loose and was struck by the out-of
-nowhere speeding car [like a video of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice
being shot] his guillotined laughter once the guileless language of
joy , now pleading with each startled last breath , terrified , despite
his struggle to go on living , as if with each split second he absconded
deeper into a thorned tangle of tall grass [the tiger moonlit on the horizon
moved closer , slinking from the forest to rend , to rip , to devour the
child] as dashcams and bystanders , who wide-angled their cellphones
to only bear witness , suspended his assassination in the executioner’s noose
of Time , a Danse Macabre colored by the ricocheted echo of gunshots
in a city that terrorized all Black people , and I

am seeking an attitude , against the leadership of my country
for its inertia and its silence and , therefore , its complicity with
the evil of racism

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. How many will the ghost of darkness pull down , before
Black folks take to the gun

??