Your pretend confusion,
your mock indignation,
your self-proclaimed
“color blind” eyes,
as you retort,
“All Lives Matter,”
exposed like a
turtle’s fragile underbelly
when you also proclaim
“Blue Lives Matter,”
showing it wasn’t
your inability to comprehend
that some lives
might be in more
danger than others
it wasn’t that you
couldn’t differentiate color
it wasn’t even that you
thought the statement
included an “only”
that somehow left you,
and your unexamined privilege,
in harm’s way
it was simply your rejection
of the lives you decided
were not worth your concern
1 Jun 2020
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