RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GEORGE FLOYD SERIES
Aurora
Home of Columbine
Where the weapons industry thrives
Where memories of mass shootings
Are planted in the collective mind
Aurora cops stop the wrong car
And force a black family face down
On the punishing pavement
Hands cuffed behind their backs
No apologies no decency
No sympathy for crying children
What is it about Aurora that leads
Humans to behave so callously
To commit such atrocities
To build a legacy of hate
Is it the water
Is it the militaristic mindset
Is it the culture
Is it a history of racial injustice
If ever a community required therapy
If ever the schools needed change
If ever the cops needed reform
It is now in this place and time