POETRY
‘I Can’t Breathe’
a free verse poem in memory of George Floyd
Published in
2 min readMay 29, 2020
“I can’t breathe!” — George Floyd pleads with the officer who was killing him, a knee to the neck.
I cannot watch the video.
There are too many of these
videos of life taking life taking life
— blackness raising the chances
of death unwarranted,
of disproportionate incarceration
of getting caught…
