For Pastor Clementa Pinckney, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Rev DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Tywanza Sanders, Rev Daniel Simmons Snr, Rev Sharonda Singleton, and Myra Thompson. Murdered June 17, 2015 during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, S.C.
i just want to say
You welcomed me in
to your prayer time
let me sit
were very kind
an hour of that
was all I could take
I shot nine of you
in little time
Forgive me
I shouldn't have pretended
that prayer
mattered to me
poem by rob g
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This is a false apology poem in the style of William Carlos Williams.
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