Jul 07 2011

Poem for the Day: Self-Portrait

america would probably
blow it
if it ever woke up
and dug,
that its government
is supposed to revolve
around the people,
not the people
around its government.

by Juno Bakali Tshombe/Craig Dee Anderson

From: Who Took the Weight? Black Voices From Norfolk Prison – An Anthology of Poems, Essays, Stories and Plays.