The Wake

What scares them most is
That NOTHING HAPPENS!
They are ready
For DISTURBANCES.
They have machine guns
And soldiers,
But this SMILING SILENCE
Is uncanny.
- Anise

I want to talk against this police state
a little bit
while the onslaught by the L.A.P.D.
on immigrant rights protestors
are still swollen
and red from the welts
of the rubber bullets flying in crowds of women
and children
and the elderly
and reporters
in an act of aggression
towards those redressing their grievances

it was not always this way.

In 1919, a General Strike Committee
set the city of Seattle on a stand-still
urging laborers to go out and protest
their grievances
for a better a wage, and a comfortable
way of life.

I want to speak of the peace that came with their strike
I want to speak of the crime rates falling
I want to speak of the peace
of Seattle, shut down.
I want to speak of the peace
while the L.A.P.D. tramples
families off of their feet.