To Prisoners - I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark.

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To Prisoners

I call for you cultivation of strength in the dark.
Dark gardening
in the vertigo cold.
In the hot paralysis.
Under the wolves and coyotes of particular silences.
Where it is dry.
Where it is dry.
I call for you
cultivation of victory Over
long blows that you want to give and blows you are going to get.

Over
what wants to crumble you down, to sicken
you. I call for you
cultivation of strength to heal and enhance
in the non-cheering dark,
in the many many mornings-after;
in the chalk and choke.
Gwendolyn Brooks



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_George_Floyd
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protest-updates-05-28-20/h_58a4d4f3a5e1df02d0793755ae84d86a
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/central-park-new-york-white-woman-black-birdwatcher

100,000 dead in America due to Covid-19

Ren

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Another night of riots erupts in US as protesters, police clash in NYC, Philly, Chicago, other cities.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/america-braces-unrest-protesters-police-clash-george-floyd

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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

John F. Kennedy

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Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, eh eh

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today, oh oh oh

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Yeah, what's going on
Ah, what's going on

In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on brother
Right on babe

Mother, mother, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply 'cause our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh oh oh

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
C'mon talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Yeah, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Right on baby
Right on baby

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