2020
vision
July 26th
envision
12:30 a.m.
Portland
Oregon
protestors
decisions
in the street
tatatatatatatum
drums beat out a steady rhythm
ready gas masks
protective head gear
hefty helmets
masked protestors
lines of masked police
ready to arrest
malice but steady
people spitefully yelling
fright night
one instance
in the black and white distance
a heady bull horn
intrinsic crowds demanding
instant justice
public standing
this street resistance
beat revolution
tearing up big brother
consistent
insistence
banging insistently
obstinate in the torn-up night
a rising chant
everyone surmises they are prepared
the peppered system
re-system
the salted system
resist them
their prepared mustard
assaulting tear gas
weapons of mass intention
unmasking big brother
crass police assistance
contrived zigzag patterns
mass really matters
when masked secret police arrive
what will be derived
what truly matters
when shots ring out
and everyone takes a panicked dive

  

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