Art by: Nafis White
Can I Get A Witness? by Jingyih Lee
Can I get a Witness?
A blinding neon sign
Hung
In the corner
of the dark room.
Around a corner
of the deli store
where Trayvon Martin screamed.
Can I get a Witness?
A shout to the void
Of spectators.
Helpless onlookers.
That filled Garner’s
Blurred vision.
Slowly
Slipping
out
of
Consciousness.
Can I get a Witness?
Echoed
Louder and Longer
Than the
Frantic burst.
Seven shots.
Tunneling
Towards Brown
Can I get a Witness?
Of Rice’s thoughts
Living up his
Childhood Fantasies
When he walked out
His door
On that cold brisk
Winter morning.
At twelve years.
Knowing it will be
His last?
Can I get a Witness?
At the bottom of
a dark corridor
down a flight of stairs
next to Gurley
Sputtering blood.
Next to the cop
Claiming
It was only an
Accidental discharge.
Can I get a Witness?
I get a Witness?
Get a Witness?
A Witness?
Witness.
