Elaine

Can you imagine
Back then 1919
And it was your birthday?
And then shit went down?
No internet
No cell phones
And you’re black
Livin in Arkansas
You see these white men
With guns walkin in your
Neighborhood
Starts shootin
Runnin for your life
Please you have no weapon
You just run
You just run
You just run
And shit happens on your birthday
On September 30?
Can you imagine?
I wouldn’t imagine how old I be
If the bloods spilled over the town
I grow up in…
Those white men
Just barged in and
Kill and kill and kill and kill
And kill cos the blacks got somethin
To say…about gettin paid in sharecroppin
Can you imagine
On your birthday
Think about it
September 30, 1919
You were goin to have a party
With your family your friends
But Then unknown terrorists came
Ruinin your birthday
Cos black people were doin the damn thing…
White men think black people should learn their
Lesson…
By them becomin a killin spree….
Now is that insane?
I would be pissed…
I would be pissed forever
Cos the trolls wanna shoot us
To the bone and give us a trauma to
Remember….remember them
As we shouldn’t ask for pay
We should be quiet
Like good ol negroes….
And be stupid….

That’s what happened in Elaine
On September 30, 1919
That’s my birthday though I wasn’t there in 1919
I imagined though…devastatin….💯✊🏿©️ Kai C. 1-28-24