POEM FOR LA
Rodney King riots
Please open
our hearts
to the earth
‘s only hope.
My heart is heavy.
Anger robs the streets
& the skies weep
for rain.
April 30, 1992
found scrawled on a typed poem, Phrases of the Moon, dated 4/23/93, which suggests it was written a year after the event, or it was scribbled on a random bit of paper, but it's too immediate. I could've been writing, or revising it at a reading. The riots did not start until 29 April.
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