The tear gas long wafted away, the streets been cleared
of debris leftover from the public attack
perpetrated to manufacture optics. Seared
images in head of marauding racists thwack
at calm moments. White skin, white outfits like clockwork
orange at top of alley beside police station
(of all places), chatroom nazis with deranged smirk
making In Real Life sub-reddit, shaping nation
by August 12th act. And the news cycle moves on,
The Discourse parsing semantics of "both sides";
but for us here the memories not nearly gone -
still shook as fuck, stuck in shock, feeling the divides
conquer simple humanity - whitehouse effect
that simply being human doesn't earn respect.
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