Ceasefire now. Before Thanksgiving?By Christmas or the New Year?

On MLK day or Easter? Forever?Before old tricks find themselves out,

and genocide is seen through, this year or the nextdecade, and scholars sign off on it.

Repetition won’t guarantee wisdom,but ceasefire nowbefore your wisdom is an echo.

We need to differentiatebetween the dead and the not-here.

We require you to restore your mindto your heart, its earliest version,

before the world touched it.After the massacre

who will emerge innocent?And I, a serf riotin maximum-security prison

online or behind fences.Cease now. Sure, you will

have to grant more rightsand cede new ground. Sure,

revolution shall not last.Shall not end.