By Button Poetry
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Yaw Kyeremateng, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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It’s 1955 and a white woman yells in a court room,
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accuses 14-year-old Emmet Till of his own death.
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And it’s 2017, and Carolyn Bryant now 82 years old
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finally admits to lying about Emmet
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like we didn’t already know.
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To this day she has lived Emmet’s lifespan six times over,
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says, “I’m sorry” and expects God to grant forgiveness.
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Says I’m sorry, forget it is 2019, and false accusers,
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descendants of your white lie
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still blame black boys for crimes they didn’t commit.
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Crimes fabricated by pressed white women says, “I panicked,” says, I’m sorry.”
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Just last month Emmet’s memorial
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was riddled with bullets by three white boys,
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did your sorry shield the shot?
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Can regret resurrect the lynched boy?
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She says, “I’m sorry” but has not mentioned the black boy’s name.
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Carolyn, I hope your withering bones creek his name, ‘Emmet’ till his memory
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is ground into your marrow.
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Till innocent murdered black boys everywhere
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can finally rest in peace.
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(audience) Wow! (applause and cheering)
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