On Monday and Tuesday of this week, my doctoral alma mater chose to brutalize students peacefully protesting genocide in Palestine.
It’s fucking sickening. So of course, it begat art.
smoke rolls
from thrown metal
tears roll
from clear eyes
Eyes too clear to the injustice
all of it
rubber fired
from so-called protectors
rubber bounces
off bruised skin
skin too beaten by injustice
all of it
hearts break
from rubber bullets
hearts break
from too many tears
tears that burn
because of the injustice
all of it