Keeping My Hands to Myself

All I think about is how much I want you to survive. When you were fourteen, I told you: You can be anything you want to be, just don’t be a statistic I told you: “We live on the wrong side of town and I know, they know Your name not because they want to

ALL THESE WALLS OPPRESSION BUILDS WILL HAVE TO GO!

In a time of such heartbreak, we say their names: George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Tony McDade. Regis Korchinski. Breonna Taylor. David McAtee. Justin Howell. Black lives matter. Sometimes we can feel something like compassion fatigue. There is so much going on at once and so many things wrong. But even when we are so tired,