by Howard A. Fergus
Trayvon Martin has passed
into the main stream of black history.
Zimmerman has made the grade cum laude
into the ivory record written blood-red.
The stream flooded in a Florida
palace of justice with a muddy overflow
onto the streets and painful reverberations
in Brixton Montgomery and Montserrat.
Trayvon is declared dead. Full stop.
We will cancel the stop, change
the tenor of the song, a bar at a time
change the audit of wrong. So many lives on the line.
Howard A. Fergus
