New TCBH! poem by Gary Lindorff: 'I Can't Breathe'

I’m white.
But I can’t breathe.
I’m suffocating.
Maybe I’m dying.
 

I tried to run
But I got caught
Thinking terrible thoughts about my twisted country.
Dangerous and dark thoughts,
Like a German might have thought
When the Nazi’s were beating up Jews.
And the zeitgeist was shouting at me to stop.
Don’t shoot! I shouted,...

For the rest of this new poem by resident poet Gary Lindorff in ThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent, uncompromised five-time Project Censored Award-winning online alternative newspaper, please go to: www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/2595