I Count These Days in Toes
Or, Cavities
they say covid has
killed Black
Americans*
that we must practice
social distancing
and wear masks
thick enough to keep us from
seeing
the difference between
where we should stand and
where George is
lying
because covid has
killed one in one
thousand
funny
one
in one thousand
Black men
that’s now 6 feet
by 6 feet
that’s four
feet and twenty toes
presumably
two hundred
ninety thousand
four hundred
bodies planted over
two thousand twenty
opportunities to
Till differently
that’s
how many
six-feets
are in
forty acres
if you keep
their legs straight
and flex
their toes
how many Breonnas
in two thousand
twenty-one if
Daniel Cameron
still wishes he were
white like Mitch’s
pillow case or the
wrapper on Casey’s
one-foot
sandwich
that’s a six-foot cavity, right?
somebody please
tell the health department
you can’t measure
social distance
in feet
that’s it.
that’s the tweet.
—
*it is now .
#CaseyGoodson
#BlackLivesMatter
