On the screen @Mitchie's Gallery,UT vs California
Folk are getting somewhat agitated by the football to and fro
When the reading starts,the sound is turned off
Laptops folded,phones turned down,all wars stop
And the quiet listening to the young of art
begins like bells in villages-to chime in songs
we were unaware of-until technology was silenced
in favor of human beamings...
ON THE WALLS OF MITCHIES
Images in black-and white!
Black Jesus as a Palestinian
Brown child with a black doll
Black beauty brides in white wedding veils
Brown mothers with black babies
Buffalo soldiers ready for battles
Black GIs with helicopter Afghanistan backdrops
Black slaves picking white cotton
Nubian Princesses with zithers
Brown women at a well drawing brown water
Images of slavery,icons of liberation-
Malcolm,Martin,Obama
Black saints,black angels,black artists
Hung on these walls of freedom
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