Saturday, October 8

This is What Democracy Looks Like


Wall Street protesters bullied by police

This is not your bridge
Not your pavement
Orange barricades protect asphalt and stone,
Bankers and Power

You shrink as the pepper spray assaults your wide, trusting eyes
You sit unmoving, as we attack with clubs
You state your name as “Troy Davis, Emmet Till, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King."
You recite the First Amendment.

We rule this block, these streets
To protect order, to keep the peace


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