{"id":1641,"date":"2015-04-05T18:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1641"},"modified":"2021-02-22T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:41:17","slug":"unspeakable-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"unspeakable acts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"17<\/a><\/p>\n

Dedicated to my brother “Just Bill<\/a>“…..   Peace out humanity !<\/p>\n

oh seemingly quaint  ~  charming
\nand refined
\nRichmond
\nthe once was
\ncapital
\nof the
\nConfederacy
\nI this day
\nleisurely
\nstroll along
\nthe streets
\nof the historic
\nShockoe Bottom \u2026\u2026.
\nthen suddenly
\nas I approach
\nthe 17th Street
\nFarmers\u2019 Market
\nand see
\nthat big clock just ahead
\non the Main Street Station
\nmy empathic sensitivity
\nheightens
\nits perceptivity
\nlike a sonar \u2026..   picking up
\nan underwater frequency
\nI have these strong
\nand persistent   ~   pulsating
\nvibes
\ncome over me
\nsome sort of
\ncollective conscious
\narchetype \u2026..
\n\u2026\u2026   a ghost in the machine
\nI shiver and tremble
\nas if possessed by a demon
\ninformation   ~   memories
\nflow through my body
\nthe good with the bad
\nwell some
\nin my humble opinion
\npurely evil
\nstored and preserved
\nforever
\nwithin the spirit
\nof energy\/matter   ~   according
\nto my thought process
\nwithin reflective consciousness
\nanyhow\u2026..
\n\u2026\u2026   there is here to me
\nthis very strong sense
\nof emotional turmoil
\na felt sense
\nabout a restless
\nand shameful revelry
\nnot so long ago \u2026..   at least
\nnot in the creator of all things
\nkind of time
\nI perceive today
\nthis sanctimonious mob
\nstirred up by
\nvalue judgments
\ntainted with the poison
\nof bias
\nassociated with
\nself- elevation
\nfolk of a certain skin color
\nthinkin\u2019
\nfrom the perspective
\nof a prehistoric mindset
\nthey are favored
\non high
\nover those of a different
\nskin color
\nothers of THE HUMAN RACE
\nthey whipped them in public
\nas if not human
\nat this place
\nwhere the 17th Street
\nFarmers\u2019 Market
\nnow is\u2026.
\ntraded for ownership
\nfellow human beings
\ninto slavery
\nthere was even
\na professional \u2018Whipper<\/em>\u2019
\nor known as a slave breaker
\nto beat them
\nright here
\nI still smell the smoke
\nof their skin
\nfrom the lash
\nthat\u2019s so   ~   so fucked up \u2026\u2026..
\nas a human
\nI wanted to puke
\nmy guts out
\nfrom remorse
\nfor being born of white skin
\nthen as I walked on by\u2026.
\n\u2026\u2026 my senses
\ncame back to me
\nI ain\u2019t got no issue
\nnever have had
\nwith a sister or brother
\nof the humankind
\nthose of another skin color
\nhowever
\nlike the story
\nof the Holocaust
\nor that of the First Nations
\nthis story needs to be told
\nagain and again
\nso members of
\nTHE HUMAN RACE
\nwon\u2019t continue
\nto repeat
\non others
\nsuch unspeakable acts
\nnot acceptable
\nwithin
\nthe intelligently progressive
\nideals
\nof the human-kind<\/p>\n

peace out<\/p>\n

Image & Words by   ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n

This story poem will be a part of the May edition that’s a collaboration by the 2015 Poetry Posse  – The Year of the Poet II published by Inner Child Press.  Buy your monthly copy Here: http:\/\/www.innerchildpress.com\/the-year-of-the-poet.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dedicated to my brother “Just Bill“…..   Peace out humanity ! oh seemingly quaint  ~  charming and refined Richmond the once was capital of the Confederacy I this day leisurely stroll along the streets of the historic Shockoe Bottom \u2026\u2026. then suddenly as I approach the 17th Street Farmers\u2019 Market and see that big clock … Continue reading “unspeakable acts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slaveryinamerica","category-poertyposse2015","category-wordimagerystyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}