My death won't be covered

No obits, no pictures

No profiles with a catalogue of dreams

No 3000 word essays in the New Yorker

Maybe an inch in the local paper

My death wont be covered

I am not sexy enough

I am not white enough

I am not interesting enough

Unless they can pin something on me

My death won't be covered

My blood isn't red enough

My grief isn't relatable enough

My life isn't worth enough

Maybe it is not fashionable enough

My death won't be covered

Public executions don't draw crowds

Private ones cost a fortune

Poverty is a boon after all

Not everyone has company in the grave after all

My death won't be covered

I don't have a name or even a number

I don't have a home or even a shroud

I don't have a bomb or even a cause

Or a mortgage to buy a few minutes of respite

My death won't be covered

And i won't even be remembered

But my oppressor will be celebrated

His pain will be taught in schools

While,

My death won't be covered

And I won't even be remembered

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For posterity

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