Sunday, August 23, 2020


The cool night
howls.

An owl
shadows
the street lamp.

A
young woman
carried home
by friends
drunkenly shouts
"Guys, you don't know
 my people,
where we came from,
what we've endured -
it's so fucked up".

Silence,
for minutes or hours.

Phone keys punched,
a ring,

unanswered.