Enough

I remember fragments of a poem

by Gil Scott-Heron

I think the title was “Not Enough”

or “Never Enough”

something like that

GHS said, not enough that we were chained;

you had to be superior

to something,

so your ancestors raped my foremothers;

what in hell is enough?

In Sacramento,

another African-American male

has been gunned down by

police officers

in the dark,

8 of 20 shots

in his back,

Stephon Clark, father of 2,

dead.

GSH knew because he

saw it all the time

that black men get shot and

white men walk.

The white ex-student who killed 17 former

classmates in Parkland

was captured,

led away in handcuffs,

very much alive.

Stephon Clark, father of 2

is dead,

dead,

dead.

How many

more Stephon Clark’s will there

be

before enough

is

enough?