Day 16: Capital Crimes

Missing the bus

And asking for help

When your are lost

Are capital crimes

For young black

Boys

Playing with a toy

Gun in a park is

A capital crime

For young black 

Boys

Walking in your 

Neighborhood at 

Night is a capital

Crime for young black

Boys

Flirting with a 

White woman is

A capital crime

For young black

Boys

Brennan Walker (2004- ), fourteen

Tamir Rice (2002-2014), twelve

Trayvon Martin (1995-2012), seventeen

Emmett Till (1941-1955), fourteen