Juanita Tyler’s deleted son
what is your thing with privates ?
privates of
black
males
private
black
delivered
in the form of
hard punch
battery
officer’s dry rage
a clinging
vine
of strangulating
envy
threaded to
thigh muscle
like the
serpent
wound
around
the
symbol
for
Western medicine
Sheriff’s
parlour
ante
room
the corridor
outside
shower stall
at
Sobibor
Didn’t care
that
I was there
my poor child
I saw
who went
in
screams &
moans
not
his
baby cry
moans
of
man
Jesus have
Mercy
all
utters
my
throat
and box
for
voice
to make
it
real
the real
real
overseer
deal
a deputy
whupped him
wid a strap
for
humbleness
impeachment
fear
was
used
a
razor
tool
they
kicked
him
in
his
privates
Oh Jesus
have
Mercy
no
other
sound
could
I
what is
this
thing
with
private
parts
must
be
too complex
for me
to
know
more
reasons
than
snow
in
snow
globes
show Mama they kicked
me.
one kicked
me
in the front &
one
kicked me
in the back
to destroy
life
future life
obliterate
any
wife
who might be waiting
there
what
is
your
thing
privately
twixt &
tween
you &
you
procreation
tools
for making
ancient
memories
of
foreign
obsidian
village
women
stomped
shipped
cargoed
violated
drowned
breasts
suckled
injuriously
to
make
a
buck
you
the
buck
what
animal
animalistic rage
akin
to
dancing the slaves
wit
anonymous
penetrations
no
such
critter
has
been
sculpted
by
God
O god
O Jesus
Mary
Couldn’t believe
what
they
had done
to
my
baby
to force confession
vomitous
falsehood
implausible
suspect
impossible
crime
government issue
Colt
a police-
man’s
Gun
before
no gun
on bus
no gun
george jackson’s
Afro
no gun
glinting
in the sun
no gun
search him
before
no gun
frisk
after
no gun
in the electric
chair
they
sentenced him to
no gun
don’t know
where
the police
got
that gun
from
but they didn’t
get it
From
MY son
railroad
hunt club
downpour
hound dog
swamp thing
run
til
we get to
the sun
they didn’t
have
no kind
of proof
against him -
more
obsession
with
the proof
of
truth
would
be
right
&
nice
a son
did die
was killed
chaos
reigned
just
the same
as
a
million
nights
upon
the
sea
passages
of nightmares
it’s
hard
we know
to
not know
how
pin it
find
someone
to strap
with belts
to pin it
on
someone’s
son
sullen
song
a
boy
was
killed
swirling
madness
the thing
was done
government
issue
gun
stolen from
the firing
range
where
policemen
shoot
the sheriff’s
pun
lost
control
control
the loss
put
blame
to
pay
the
cost
policeman’s
error
buried
deep mind
hoar frost
punish
Gary
no proof
against him
beat him
merciless
strap
him
belts
electric chair
redemption
for accidents
policeman
sheriff deputy
there
what is your thing with privates Juanita
private
death
strangled
outrage
private illegal
incarceration
dangling noose
all private
dangling
loose
private
secret
lurking
in the brain
of man
whose
gun
went
off
in chaos
smoke
he
hopes
he’s dead
so it will
stay
PRIVATE