Poem inspired by Langston Hughes's "Dream Deferred" from The Panther & The Lash. This is wholesale thievery from the original poem. Same structure (though I added a couplet), same rhyme scheme and similar language. Here's the original. Rainbow Flag, Half Mast
Adam Stone What happens to a massacre replaced by a constantly tragic news cycle? Does it get washed away like blame in a hurricaned city? Or dry up like a well of unsupervised pity? Do its victims finally find peace with their names role called on a press release? Does it get filed as notes for the survivors' therapists when the media changes the word homophobe to terrorist? Maybe it just frays like a rainbow flag made of cotton until it's just another mass shooting forgotten
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