Trayvon's High School Reunion
       

We'll have to shoot
a last minute email
to the caterers to keep the Skittles
off the snack table. We'll bother

to leave out ajar for the Next Black Boy
to Breathe College Air Scholarship Fund.
We'll have a moment of silence for all
the dead bodies we forget to name.

We'll tell the DJ to scratch
over all the gunshot adlibs, leave
the Public Enemy in the crate.
We'll take a head count before every slow jam,

guarantee everyone has a shoulder
for their wet cheeks, a buffer
for every mumbled prayer god
will pretend to never hear.

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