Racist Rhetoric Poem by John Sensele

Black lives flatter
All lives matter
When a demagogue pits American against American
Shoving value and decency into a cantakerous can.

Black lives matter
No lives should a demagogue scatter
To revive sagging political fortunes
Singing from hymn sheets of racist tunes.

Black lives on police brutality platters
No lives should a demagogue fasten on covid posters
Side-stepping spiking numbers of covid cases
Politically correcting spiralling covid death aces and faces.

Black lives, sacrificial lambs
Black lives, not mere rhetoric iambs
A demagogue tweets with sanguine impunity
Pontificating on theories of egregious immunity.

Black lives salute American visionnaires
Who through protest brandish questionnaires
Divisive demagogues fail to complete
Preferring instead with cynical sectarians to eat.