Lamentation

"The flagrancy of public murder exacts an exponential toll on the black life that survives; it renders the power of witness moot. The reminder isn't that we are alive. It's that we have yet to die." -Doreen St. Félix

Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell...

"Are we not of interest to each other?" asks Elizabeth Alexander.

Too many names. May they count.