My friend’s father,
white
and wealthy,
discharged his gun
into the dirt
and the trespassers
stopped painting mud lines
across his fields
long enough
to send him
to jail.
Also white
also wealthy,
and bored in the ways
their privilege
bought for them,
they claimed
deadly weapons
and assault,
although no one
was touched,
no blood pooled
between broken stalks.
Across the country,
another man,
with a gun
strapped to his side,
killed a black man
with his knee,
and went home
for dinner.
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