two poems by streetwise vendor lady david tillman All Lives Matter Funnier Than A Richard Pryor Joke You Say You Work Too Hard
When You See A Black Man, In A Hold That Chokes.
That I Know Is Pig Lard If I Let You In My House, You Be A Rodent Mouse! Even Though We Never Dated I Thought You Never Hated Now My Heart's Been Splintered, Almost Didn't Make It Thru Winter!
All Lives Matter Sounded Quieter Than A Mouse When Breonna Taylor Got shot and killed in her own house All Lives Matter
Last Semester Of School
Oh drink a Corona
Nothing In My Mind Is Cool
When Black On Black Violence
So I Bought Disney, Don't Like It Miss Me
Gets Less News Than The Corona
My Favorite Aunt Died All Lives Matter
Couldn't Go To The Funeral Not Even Cry
Tell Me This
So Yes I Popped Pills, Not Gonna Lie
Can You Identify The Bodies
This COVID-19 Nonsense
Swimming With The Fish
People Don't Use Common Sense 6 Feet, Wear A Mask, Is That A Hard Task
All Lives Matter Do You Look At The Pages
Numbers Are Rising
Of All The Immigrants
Riots Feel Like Advertising
Locked In Cages
Don't Go After The Cops, Burn Down Your Shops
All Lives Matter
INSIDE STREETWISE STREETWISE INSIDE
I Write Lines
16
Do You Let It Slide
I Write Rhymes
When Native American Teens
Coffee Drink Yes I Think Won't Paint My Nails But I Might As Well Make My Bed So I Lay My Head Ain't Gone Lie So Sad I Can't Even Cry 6/17/2020
Are Number 1 In Suicide All Lives Matter Don't Tell A Lie You Just Started Your Movement When The Flags Of No More Injustice Started To Fly Black, Brown, Red, Yellow and White If All Lives DID Matter I Wouldn't Have To Write 6/10/2020
Both poems © David Anthony Tillman. Used by permission.
