My skull itched from the shock of bone when smoke filled my home. So, when the bulls eye burned during protests no one had to tell me. It’s kind-of Alice in Wonderland with the same moving picture re-shown over and over again. To live in a Black body means balancing the burden of hundreds of skulls on your head to allow in other burdens.Ī cop locked his knee cap into George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds killing him in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Īcross the country, riots broke out following attacks at the hands of the police In 1967. Horns, unlike antlers, are an extension of the skull and usually found on both males and females. I wasn’t reaching for it, was all they heard before there were no sounds.
In 2016, Philando Castile was murdered for being Black and suspicious. It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. The first Target store opened in the suburbs of Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1962. To exhibit skill, English archers shot arrows through the eye socket of a bull’s skull. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction for his book, A Love Like Blood. Yates is the winner of the 2020 George Floyd Honorarium for Poetry from the Los Angeles Press and was awarded a grant from the city of Glendale for a new spoken word performance in 2021. He was also awarded a grant from West Hollywood to shoot a documentary recording narratives of older gay men to preserve for younger generations. His Black Lives Matter spoken word performance, Death Sentence, received a grant from the city of West Hollywood in 2020.
Yates is a writer, storyteller, and digital media artist. In honor of Black History Month The Pride’s featured poem this month is by poet Victor Yates.
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