Black, A Poem. Indran

Black

Black Lives Matter. Your life matters. Black Lives

Matter. The Mad Hatter's Life Matters. And his right

to change his name, to wipe the mad prejudice

out of words matters. Black Lives Matter. My life

matters. Black Lives Matter. All lives matter. Black

Lives Matter. The squirrel's life matters. Black Lives

Matter. The elephants eat bamboo, and babies gather

round their mothers, and there are no electric fences

or shot guns and there is earth to roam and there are

paths to forge. Black Lives Matter. The police chief,

senator, assemblyman, garbage collector, teacher

and poet and all other professions and creatures

on all arks of the world join the march along

16^th Street in Washington D.C. beside giant

yellow letters shouting Black Lives Matter.

Indran Amirthanayagam, c) June 10, 2020