Floating in the flat black pacific

Wetsuit on he sees

The police chase on the boardwalk

Looking east his vision blurs

Point Pleasant Virginia

A ship comes into view

20 enslaved Africans on board

Asking what year did man go to the moon

Flat footed they chase the young brother

The cops pull guns

The sun has not come up yet

They fire

One of the twenty waits for the full moon

And been  there 10 years

He runs

Horses give chase

They catch him

And strip him then whip him

Buck break him next to the field house

The young brother makes it to the basketball

Court

The cops shoot him down

Flat black pacific ocean stays calm

He paddles back in

Wetsuit off

He lights one

And smokes

Drives to math class

At UCLA

What is the difference between a good education and a good eulogy….

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