*After reading a blog and report about the noose found hanging from a light fixture in a library & other incidents causing racial tensions at UCSD (University of California - San Diego), I decided to write the follow poem:
A noose wrapped around
The neck of light
Illuminated a message
Sung by southren phantoms
And western politicians.
The history was all there.
The noose, surrounded by
Wasted memorabillia --
In a room where termites
Could make their home --
Hung as limp as the
Body it was made to dangle
Like strange fruit on
Rotten trees,
Or holy fruit on forbidden trees;
Or like apples overripe
With promises of spring.
By A. Jarrell Hayes
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