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My money being
The nonviolent part of rage
A kind of courtesy worship
Or caste-system blues

Bullet casings in the comb
I learned their language immediately
I watched an animal explode into hundreds of flags

Judging by my wounds
The government has counted me in

Face to face
With a police officer’s family history
My anecdote is only just beginning

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Tongo Eisen-Martin

Tongo Eisen-Martin is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco. He is the author of Heaven Is All Goodbyes and someone’s dead already. His most recent book of poems, Blood on the Fog, will be published in September.
 (September 2021)

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