“A Tribute to Gwendolyn Brooks’ ‘The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to
Little Rock’ & Robert Hayden’s ‘Middle Passage,’ with lines from each”

Moon Girle 

“Gatsby”

In Little Rock, the people bear Time.
In Little Rock, they know
“They are like people everywhere.”
They know
in a hundred harryings of Why.
Why
voyage through death
to life upon these shores?
And why do
the living look at you
like the dying is your fault?

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You can tell what they care for by the things they follow, they/
Like & comment/ where they lie.
I have learned/
The invisible man speaks hard truths, and/
it goes against their sentiments, so they/
Keep going for the fun facades/ and glamorous dress & drinks in hand/
A gorgeous world of glass & diamond/
Easily shattered & unable to break/ A prison
that splinters daily, sinking its shards/
Into soft flesh, but I find I tried/
Everyone’s way but my own & I claim/ that truth.
Ironically, I am loved yet called/ one thing/
Then another while no one/