Statistical Haiku (Or, How Do They Discount Us? Let Me Count The Ways) Poem by Evie Shockley
Statistical Haiku (Or, How Do They Discount Us? Let Me Count The Ways)
only 3 of 100 black boys
entering kindergarten will graduate college—
in the night sky, shooting stars
every day a black person
under 20 years old commits suicide—
plucked magnolia blossom's funereal perfume
a black man is 700% more likely
than a white man to be sentenced to prison—
scattered thundershowers in may
every 3 minutes
a black child is born into poverty—
pine needles line the forest floor
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4/21/2024 6:01:02 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Greate write it is a painful image thus. SMH