On Dying

well if we must die

let it not be by the hands

of those whom we love

Inspired by Claude McKay’s poem “If We Must Die”

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15250

Thoughts about Chicago during the Red Summer of 1919

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer_of_1919

And the ongoing youth violence in Chicago today.