silver

london burns and other cliched headlines mark
the death of a young Mark Duggan and
resting in peace is obviously not
in the cards so across the water
we refresh news sites and
watch for riot footage the way
we always wait for changes and
weird smells in the wind what

we
do
know
is

he thought the feds were following
he was strapped and on his way home
he was slaughtered with the H&K MP5 and
it
is
all
happen
-ing
again
and

people loot because they are robbed and
communities rooted in forgotten soil reap
screaming ghosts in the afterglow and the
cops wait until they are unafraid and experience
leaks the resolve into twisting hands and the
sidewalks will always
grow dangerous
and always grow hazardous
burning blooms

the family hasn't seen him yet