Dignity

Dignity (Randyjw; September 28, 2020)

 

I cried for that man

sitting so stoic in the chair

when the cops came and said

You can’t be seated there

 

He turned his head around

a four-inch ‘fro dark in the air

some curls lay on the ground

the other half completely bare

 

So proud of the barber woman

who defiantly took her stand

she said she’d continue to do the job

let them arrest her, she’d be damned

 

They’d come with a mobile shower

a volunteer restored their crowns

And for at least one blessed hour

Our heads held high — we stared him down