Category Archives: middle passage

First They Came For The Black People: An Ode To Lady Justice

Posted on December 18, 2014 by soitgoes1984

visions of people in my dreams lines and lines of left, right left behind leave all your belongings you won’t need them giant computer screens names and numbers from tattooed bar-codes scanned by young women progress IBM stock rising again … Continue reading →

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Middle Passage

Posted on January 12, 2014 by soitgoes1984

Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) painting by: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840. @MFA Boston Ecphrastic poem written for English class, 2010 The ocean was set ablaze,                                                                                                                                  Neptune got angry                                                                                                                  … Continue reading →

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