Dear judge:
I write right to you,
the message is sent,
not old, not new
echo of so many,
too, too! Enumerated to count statistics,
unrecorded numbers
of coat hangers,
the cleaners closed,
unsanitized penicillin commercialized,
breakers madmen, unlicensed quacks with beautiful vials of Ludlum, opiates
knock yourself out to delay in the last century –
imbibed, addicted, next to dead,
overdosed and dead, the toe ring says
unknown, no identification, proper grave next year, maybe buried.
No paper says no proof ain’t dead
MIA – missing in action.
Friends do not know what to think and call the morgue,
such a life, no one gave a damn,
standing on the street,
awaken, woke up dead.
Dick Steel still don’t get a pass.
Oh yah, Dick is Richard and Richard is Dick.
No matter, he still don’t get no pass.
Roe versus Wade, really? Telling a human
body by law is no human right,
you overstepped your bounds.
I guess we need a sex strike,
and let’s see who ends the day.
Stand up!
Potions,
backroom monsters,
witch doctors,
black market nurses and doctors
who care for life,
decisions ordained by society, no choice.
Speak, not you, do not dare.
So many born
hidden under the unlit moon,
breath taken
to the steps of earth no more.
Under the clapboard floors,
protected,
no slavery there.
Fourscore and more,
breeding is not a forced, no choice
no right to pass and breathe,
survive, early blooming full,
nick the ball out of life, jobs and school,
scorned by ignorant fools.
Some of the children burned
survived.
One thing I know, the living death of slavery,
not my child under the clap
board to heaven they were born,
free one step up into the universe of angels and live above.
No condemnation shall one give no respect of persons,
one human is no different;
we’re all the same.
So, someone tell the court,
no decision on what I can and cannot do.
Ownership, nobody human has illegal
chains on ankles hands and feet,
Abraham Lincoln broke that Jim Crow freak.
So, tell the Roberts on the court
that we know their first name
is Robert Stay the court Hoover dam you out of my body.
You do not own it,
you cannot roll a rule out on it.
Get a brain, orgasmic grip and stop tyranny.
Do you understand? Democracy, the constitution, and universal human rights?
