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George Floyd Mural on 38th & Chicago, by Priscilla Gyamfi
38th and Chicago
Elizabeth Harmatys Park 
 

our corner
 
our bus stop
our drugstore
we plodded there with
babies bundled on a sled
after a blizzard
 
our corner 
the curb we bumped
the stroller over
walking to get ice cream 
on a blistering hot day
 
our corner
the grocery that always 
cashed a small check for us
so we could go out
on a Saturday night
 
our corner
where a man was murdered
with callous indifference
by the knee of cruelty 
on his neck
 
our corner where
George Floyd said please
where he said sir
where over and over
he pleaded I can’t breathe
 
our neighbor
one of us, like us,
who called out mama
before he died
on our corner
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