Julia Skerry — Large Haul

instead of chainmail and locked bar arms we need to incentivize our police to encourage themselves. we need pay raises for every non violent month. we need added vacation time for every cop who works with local artists. we need new boots for good deeds. a new horse for every time we don’t need to call a hearse. gold stars for every gold cap that isn’t fired. we need to be melting the unused bullets into gold caps for crooked teeth and have a contest to see which cop can smile and imitate the cosmos best. we need to turn the locker room talk out with the same clout that cuddles up to the shoulders of autonomy. we need to re-cleave and learn how to learn. we need tree and dirt lessons. but in this wound I’m still behind the podium and the precinct is still split into two melon’d halves my voice still sung in the air “hatred ferments in darkness and the best way to ruin the speed of growing violence is with light”

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