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​A KWANSABA ELEGY
FOR MICHAEL BROWN

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By Charlois Lumpkin 
                                                          
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Tear gas shrouds police in mist trust
 
as tempers smolder, releas’n smoke curls of
 
wild hairs in turgid river, refus’n to
 
be tamed.  Eyes flash forward to place
 
where long stemmed roses line Ferguson divide,
 
mark for, ever in memory, the angry
 
hallow’d point of Mike Mike’s last stand.

 
 
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Ferguson Missouri Police Officer.   Michael Brown was eighteen years old and unarmed. 
 

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