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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Angelique Zobitz has recently been published in Sugar House Review, So to Speak: a feminist journal of language + art, SWWIM, Junto Magazine and Geeky Press’ Hoosier Lit anthology. She lives in the Midwest with her husband, daughter, and two rescue dogs.
Also by Angelique Zobitz:
this country will require you to be magical then attempt to burn you for being a witch
Black Marie Antoinette
where I, the poet, start with a form but the memories break it/me apart
Poets Resist
Edited by Asante Keron Hamid
November 20, 2018
Edited by Asante Keron Hamid
November 20, 2018
Erasure for Jemel Roberson
Between Sunday and Tuesday the man
fatally shot by officers evolved
from a “subject” with a gun” to
“a brave man who was doing his best
to end an active shooter situation”
Witnesses said the officer who arrived
on scene jumped onto the bar and waved
an assault rifle before running
outside and fatally shooting Jemel.
Aimed a weapon at him
While Roberson screamed out —
“I’m security! I’m security!”
Any time you lose
a Black man, a black son you
understand what’s going on.
While shootings of security
guards and off-duty police officers
are fairly rare,
they have happened.
A Black New York City police officer
wearing street clothes — shot and killed
as he chased a man who had broken into his car.
That same year, in Brooklyn,
a 43-year old Black security guard.
A year earlier, in Westchester
A Black off duty officer subduing
an assault suspect was shot.
A 73-year old night watchman
at a recycling center in Florida,
killed by the officers he called.
A Black police sergeant
in Rhode Island killed by colleagues
as he broke up a fight between others.
Many observers said the common
perception that “a good guy with a gun”
is the only way to stop a mass shooting
as long as that armed individual is not Black.
Taken from "Protesters say security guard Jemel Roberson was proverbial ‘good guy with a gun’ — but was shot and killed by police anyway", 11.15.2018, Daily Southtown.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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