A black and white still from the movie Get Out. The main character's shocked face with a single tear running down his cheek.

THE SAME FINGER THAT SAID

THE SAME FINGER THAT SAID
FUCK CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
ALSO SAID

give biden another 4 years
give amerikkka another president
we must bomb that police state over there

(but not this one)

a police state can’t be a police state
if pigs come in all colors and languages
we were a colony once but the revolution
turned things around like a complete 360
and no i’m not advocating for revolution

(not a real one at least)

you know like one where nothing changes
except the shape style of the flag
except the name on the sublease
are colonizers’ children still colonizers
if they pretend to forget where they’re from
do the poor really need to seize power
if the rich swore to spell-check our obituaries
cheap promises are still promises after all


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Darius Simpson is a writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. His work has appeared in New Ohio Review, The Adroit Journal, Crab Creek Review, and others. Darius believes in the dissolution of empire and the total liberation of all Afrikans by any means available.