Road to Hell, The Series

Jane Muschenetz, sPARKLE & bLINK, Issue 112 

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“Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot in her [own bed]… on March 13, 2020, when white plainclothes officers … of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) forced entry into [her home]…”                                                                                                                                                                                    – Wikipedia.org

Road to Hell, The Series

I know the pretty paved road you are traveling

ends in a gas chamber lit by 6 million stars—

a Trail of Tears, and it ends in a woman’s bed

surrounded by already spent bullets

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(Zoom-in on a police procedural, gripping

another black, ricocheting thing 

and that thing is your mouth) so

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don’t even bother pretending and asking 

Where will it end?

like we don’t already know 

the plot of this show is repetitive, the acting tired,

we’re all—

            still binge-watching anyway

Hooked on how good it used to be

and how pretty those good intentions paved over all of us

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In the Beginning, it was so good, God

saw that it was good

and the serpent also saw

it was not good enough